YahooNewsTens of people killed in southeastern Turkish town under curfew Reuters
"Tanks were deployed on the hills overlooking the city and my three-storey apartment building was set on fire last Wednesday by intensive shelling. It is completely unusable now," Yagarcik told an AFP correspondent in Ankara by telephone from Cizre.
"We -- four families, 26 people including two babies -- found sanctuary in a two-room basement. It is freezing. Hardly any electricity. We barely use phones as batteries are running out, as well as the food we live on," he added.
"We are in a basement. No heating. We are desperate. Babies are crying. I counted 24 shells that landed within only one minute in my neighbourhood."
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