Posted on 10/23/2011 8:58:58 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
VAN, Turkey (Reuters) - As many as 1,000 people were feared killed Sunday when a powerful earthquake struck Turkey, collapsing dozens of buildings and pulling down phone and power lines in the southeast of the country, officials and witnesses said.
Emergency workers battled to rescue people trapped in buildings in the city of Van and surrounding districts on the banks of Lake Van, near Turkey's border with Iran.
"We heard cries and groaning from underneath the debris, we are waiting for the rescue teams to arrive," Halil Celik, a young man who lived in the center of the city, told Reuters as he stood beside the ruins of building that had collapsed before his eyes.
"All of a sudden, a quake tore down the building in front of me. All the bystanders, we all ran to the building and rescued two injured people from the ruins."
Turkey's Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute said the magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck at 1041 GMT and was five kilometres (three miles) deep.
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"We estimate around 1,000 buildings are damaged and our estimate is for hundreds of lives lost. It could be 500 or 1,000," Kandilli Observatory general manager Mustafa Erdik told a news conference.
Cihan news agency reported that there were more than 50 dead bodies at a hospital in Ercis, a town near Van, near the quake's epicentre.
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"A lot of buildings collapsed, many people were killed, but we don't know the number. We are waiting for emergency help, it's very urgent," Zulfukar Arapoglu, the mayor of Ercis, told news broadcaster NTV.
Cihan news agency said that of the dead, 30 had been killed in Ercis district where some 80 buildings had collapsed.
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Where’s that “Trying to give a damn” graphic?
If they are at all civilized they might make an effort to recover victims and bodies a higher priority than challenging Israel at every opportunity as they have of late.
Maybe they could take care of their own affairs rather than making a nuisance of themselves internationally.
Anyone want to place bets on how many of these buildings were skimmed for construction materials and excess profit by “Good Holy Muslims”?
Judgement from on high! Turkey has turned inward and embraced the darkness. By screwing with Israel and the US, they have dug their own graves methinks. Ham sandwiches anybody?
Too bad for you Turkey.
Deal with it yourselves and don’t come asking us to help you.
Insh’Allah
PKK has stolen Cheney’s earthquake machine?
and is POed about the condition of his ark?
As a California resident I am sympathetic to victims of earthquakes - no matter where they occur.
Em = Emh + Ev = ΩoQE ± 0.2SDSD
Translation: Reality is a bitch?
Or: You get out what you put in?
Meet my sistah ‘Inertia’ and don’t even think about her Right Lateral Slip!
That region would be Kurdish. It is right out on the border with Iran.
How considerate. I take it you are a sexual intellectual.
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