Tag: Turkey earthquake

Children plucked from ruins days after earthquake, but death tolls tops 22,000

ANTAKYA, Turkey/JANDARIS, Syria, Feb 10 – Rescue crews saved a 10-day-old baby and his mother trapped in ruins of a building in Turkey on Friday and dug several people from other sites as President Tayyip Erdogan said authorities should have reacted faster to this week’s huge earthquake. The confirmed death […]

Cold, hunger, despair grip homeless as Turkey-Syria earthquake toll passes 19,000

ANTAKYA, Turkey/JANDARIS, Syria, Feb 9 – Cold, hunger and despair gripped hundreds of thousands of people left homeless after the earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria three days ago as the death toll passed 19,000 on Thursday. The rescue of a two-year-old boy after 79 hours trapped in […]

70-year-old pulled out alive in Turkey as quake toll hits 60

IZMIR, Turkey — Rescue workers extricated a 70-year-old man from a collapsed building in western Turkey on Sunday, some 34 hours after a strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea struck Turkey and Greece, killing at least 60 people and injuring more than 900. It was the latest series […]

Turkey quake kills at least 22, rescuers dig for survivors

ELAZIG, Turkey – The death toll from a powerful earthquake in eastern Turkey reached 22 on Saturday, as rescuers searched for survivors trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings. The magnitude 6.8 quake late Friday shook Elazig province, about 550 km (340 miles) east of the capital Ankara, […]

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