Aid worker Leena Sahloul from Nottinghamshire describes the terrifying moment she was awoken by the earthquake in Turkey
Leena Salhoul from Nottinghamshire said she woke up to the ceiling in her hotel room cracking above her headAn aid worker caught up in the earthquakes in Turkey said she was "ready to die" as tremors rocked the hotel she was staying in.The 25-year-old has now made it safely to Istanbul but said her father is still in the aftershock zone.More than 20,000 people are now known to have died after Monday's earthquakes in southern Turkey and northern Syria.
She works for a medical organisation and was in the country to train teams in communications. Her father runs a Syrian aid charity. "I could hear the ceiling cracking above me - I didn't think I was going to make it out alive. I said my goodbyes in my heart and I was ready to die.
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