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Rescue workers are searching eight buildings in Bayrakli, a metropolitan distric of Izmir, despite dwindling hope for survivors, as the death toll of a powerful magnitude earthquake which hit western Turkey rose to 49. IMAGES
Istanbul, Oct 30 (EEE).- A powerful earthquake in the Aegean Sea rocked coastal areas of Greece and Turkey on Friday, killing at least 22 people and leaving more than 800 others injured.The strongest impact of the temblor was in the Turkish city of Izmir, where at least 20 people perished and rescue teams were continuing to search 17 buildings that suffered severe damage, Turkey's AFAD emergency management agency said. (Camera: LARA VILLALÓN). SHOT LIST: RESCUE WORKERS AND PEOPLE SEARCH FOR SURVIVORS AT A COLLAPSED BUILDING AFTER A 7.0 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE IN THE AEGEAN SEA, IN IZMIR, TURKEY.
Ismir, Oct 30 (EEE/EPA).- A powerful earthquake in the Aegean Sea rocked coastal areas of Greece and Turkey on Friday, killing at least 22 people and leaving more than 800 others injured.The strongest impact of the temblor was in the Turkish city of Izmir, where at least 20 people perished and rescue teams were continuing to search 17 buildings that suffered severe damage, Turkey's AFAD emergency management agency said. (Camera: ERDEM SAHIN). SHOT LIST: RESCUE WORKERS AND PEOPLE SEARCH FOR SURVIVORS AT A COLLAPSED BUILDING AFTER A 7.0 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE IN THE AEGEAN SEA, IN IZMIR, TURKEY.
French and Turkish rescuers, searching through the rubble in the town of Osmaniye, southern Turkey, discover a body, before bringing it to an ambulance as a crowd waits anxiously near the ruins of a building in which seven people have been found dead, according to an official report given to AFP at 22:25 local time. Search operations like this are ongoing across southern Turkey and northern parts of neighbouring Syria after Monday's 7.8-magnitude earthquake, of which the death toll has reached over 12,000. IMAGES
Rescue teams search for victims under the rubble in devastated Talat N'Yaaqoub village in the Atlas mountains. The earthquake killed at least 2,122 people, injured more than 2,400 others, and flattened entire villages. IMAGES
Rescue workers move debris as they search for earthquake survivors in Diyarbakir, Turkey. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has admitted for the first that his government's search and rescue effort from this week's devastating earthquake was not going as quickly as hoped. IMAGES
Rescue workers search rubble for survivors in the Turkish city of Diyarbakir after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Turkey and Syria. The quake killed hundreds of people as they slept, levelled buildings, and sent tremors that were felt as far away as the island of Cyprus and Egypt. IMAGES