A 70-year-old man was pulled from the rubble of a flattened building in western Turkey yesterday, after being buried under the debris for 33 hours following a powerful earthquake which struck the country's Aegean coast and Greek islands. Authorities have announced 49 deaths in the coastal city of Izmir, while two teenagers died on the Greek island of Samos. The man, identified as Ahmet Citim, was rescued from the rubble of the residential "Riza Bey" building - one of the 20 residencies that collapsed during the earthquake. Officials said 20 buildings were destroyed in Izmir's Bayrakli district, which was in the process of urban transformation due to a lack of earthquake resistance. The Friday earthquake had a magnitude of 6.9, according to Istanbul's Kandilli Institute.

Source: The Standard November 01, 2020 19:07 UTC