Rescue efforts were continuing in eight buildings in Izmir where 79 people were killed, making Friday’s earthquake the deadliest in Turkey for nearly a decade. Elif’s two sisters and brother were rescued along with their mother on Saturday, but one of the children subsequently died. We have brought out our little one Elif from the apartment block,” Mehmet Gulluoglu, head of Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), wrote on Twitter. More than 3,500 tents and 13,000 beds have been supplied to provide temporary shelter, according to AFAD, which said 962 people had been injured in Friday’s earthquake. It was the deadliest earthquake in Turkey since one in the eastern city of Van in 2011 which killed more than 500 people.

Source: bd News24 November 02, 2020 07:18 UTC