Shower of hugs in a Turkish football stadium for the victims of the earthquake

The game had to be stopped after 4 minutes and 17 seconds. At that moment, which refers to the time of 4:17 a.m. when the earthquake occurred, fans threw the stuffed animals en masse onto the pitch.

You can see what it looked like in these images:

And the camera that normally films the players also captured the shower of hugs:

Local club Besiktas of Istanbul metropolis had asked fans to bring the soft toys to the game as a show of solidarity with the victims of the earthquake three weeks ago. The soft toys are collected and will be distributed to children in the disaster areas of southern Turkey.

Substitutes clean up

The dashboard showed the license plate codes of the eleven Turkish provinces involved.

After the “rain”, all the players, including the substitutes of both teams, helped to clear the pitch.

The earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale, which also hit northern Syria, killed more than 50,000 people.