THREE Brits are among the thousands of people missing after the catastrophic earthquake that rocked Turkey and Syria. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly announced the concerning news on the trio in t…
has warned the death toll could rocket to more than 20,000 as rescuers find more victims in the rubble.
One mum and her six-month-old baby were rescued after being trapped under the wreckage of a building in Hatay for nearly 29 hours. An official from Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority said it was "not an aftershock" and was "independent" from the earlier quake. “Turkey has experienced the deadliest earthquake worldwide four times in the last 50 years so is no stranger to the deadly consequences of such events,” said UCL professor Joanna Faure Walker.
Inmates are said to have "started to mutiny" before taking control of the prison in the town of Rajo near the Turkish border. More than 120 aftershocks followed along a 200-mile fault line including three of greater than 6.0 magnitude.Footage shared on social media reportedly shows the scene in Kahramanmara as flames lit up the night sky.
Video showed the moment one family was pulled alive from the wreckage of their home Turkey and a young boy being rescued in Syria. "My sister and her three children are there. And also her husband, her father-in-law and her mother-in-law."The quake made three major airports in the area inoperable, further complicating deliveries of vital aid.
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