It did not take long, and all the survivors from that city who were not seriously injured were already on the streets helping in the rescue work.
Many buildings collapsed either totally or partially, causing more than 30% of the local infrastructure to be damaged to the point that this city looked like a large rubble dump.
But even though many buildings had suffered because of the previous conflict, most of the local facilities were still unharmed, and so were the citizens.
Hence, those hundreds of thousands of people who had not been so affected by the previous conflict were already scattered around this city, helping the victims of this incident.
Groups were working in the destroyed buildings, removing the debris little by little, in the hope that the people who had been in these places before would still have a chance to survive.
