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Added on the 12/10/2018 14:50:41 - Copyright : France 24 EN
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
Rescuers comb through the rubble after a high-rise oceanfront apartment block near Miami Beach partially collapsed, killing at least one person and leaving 99 unaccounted for. IMAGES
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
Rescuers in Izmir continue their desperate search through heavy blocks of concrete for survivors after a a deadly earthquake. Most of the damage occured in Izmir, but the shallow tremor also triggered floods in other coastal areas across Turkey and Greece. IMAGES
Hurricane Zeta is battering the Gulf Coast with life-threatening conditions and storm surge. According to CNN, the dangerous system has descended upon Louisiana and Mississippi. The Category 2 storm made landfall with dangerous winds reaching110 mph. The eye of the storm passed over New Orleans at roughly 7:30 p.m., EDT. According to a tweet by the New Orleans government, winds were beginning to pick back up after the eye's passing. The National Hurrican Center reports that Zeta is moving at 25 mph and will increase in speed as the night continues.
Search & rescue teams at Chennault International Airport hand out water to people affected by Hurricane Laura after it wreaked havoc in the southern US state of Louisiana, tearing roofs off buildings, ripping up trees and blowing over trucks. IMAGES
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