At least 10 killed in Turkey earthquake, dozens trapped under rubble
DIYARBAKIR, Feb 6 — A major earthquake of magnitude 7.9 killed more than 50 people in southern Turkey on Monday and was felt in Cyprus, Lebanon and Syria, collapsing dozens of buildings and triggering a search for survivors under the rubble in snowy streets.
“I have never felt anything like it in the 40 years I’ve lived,” said Erdem, a resident of the Turkish city of Gaziantep, near the quake’s epicentre, who declined to give his surname.It was still too dark to see the nature of the damage, he added. “Our primary job is to carry out the search and rescue work and to do that all our teams are on alert,” Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu told reporters.
Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority put the magnitude of the quake at 7.4 near Kahramanmaras and the larger city of Gaziantep, close to the Syrian border.
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