Desperate hunt for survivors after Turkey quake carnage
- Published: 25/10/2011 at 03:32 AM
- Online news:
Rescuers scrambled Monday to find survivors of an earthquake that killed at least 279 people in eastern Turkey as residents readied to spend a second night outside in the freezing cold.
A man weeps as rescue workers search a collapsed building following an earthquake in the province of Van, eastern Turkey that killed at least 272 people.
"I am still trembling (because of fear)... As long as those aftershocks go on, we will stay in the street," Gulizar, a Kurdish woman in her 40s told AFP as she tried to keep warm in front of a makeshift fire in Van city centre.
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- Writer: AFP News agency
- Position: Agence France-Presse
