Rescuers took a 27-year old earthquake survivor to an ambulance after he was found amid the rubble of a site in eastern Turkey yesterday. It was the second quake in three weeks in the area.
(Reuters)
Japanese aid worker among dead in latest Turkey quake
11 others killed; residents protest lack of inspection
Rescuers took a 27-year old earthquake survivor to an ambulance after he was found amid the rubble of a site in eastern Turkey yesterday. It was the second quake in three weeks in the area.
(Reuters)
Japanese aid worker Atsushi Miyazaki came to Turkey in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake last month, tasked with assessing damage and distributing relief supplies to survivors. Then he, too, became a victim of Turkey’s treacherous fault lines yesterday, fatally injured when a hotel, weakened by the earlier tremor, collapsed in a second quake that killed at least 11 others. Dozens of angry residents protested at the rubble of the downtown hotel where 41-year-old Miyazaki and others died, arguing that authorities should have closed it.
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