Turkey hit by SECOND huge earthquake hours after 7.8-magnitude tremor
Striking just before dawn, the epicenter was near the town of Nurdagi, Turkey.It had a depth of some 15 miles, according to the United States Geological Survey.Up to 78 aftershocks followed that stretched to daylight hours with the strongest measuring 6.6.Footage widely 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. "Seven members of my family are under the debris," Muhittin Orakci, a stunned survivor in Turkey's mostly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, told AFP. "It is not possible to give the number of dead and injured at the moment because so many buildings have been destroyed," Coskun said.Images on Turkish television showed rescuers digging through rubble across city centres and residential neighbourhoods of almost all the big cities running along the border with Syria.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak tweeted; "My thoughts are with the people of Türkiye and Syria this morning, particularly with those first responders working so valiantly to save those trapped by the earthquake.
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