Magnitude 6.8 quake injured 1,556 people, and 45 people have been pulled from the rubble so far, the Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency says.
Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkish rescue teams continued to pull survivors from collapsed buildings Sunday, more than a day and a half after a powerful earthquake hit the country's east, killing at least 31 people, officials said.
As overnight temperatures dropped to -5 degrees Celsius , emergency teams set up more than 9,500 tents for displaced residents and distributed some 17,000 hot meals. Turkish television showed Ayse Yildiz, 35, and her 2-year-old daughter Yusra being saved from a collapsed apartment building in Mustafa Pasa district. They had been trapped for 28 hours after the earthquake struck.
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