Turkey Quake Toll Rises to 116, Rescuers Conclude Searches

Date: 04 November 2020 - 21:53

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ANKARA (Al Jazeera) – The death toll in last week’s Aegean Sea earthquake has risen to 116 as rescuers in the Turkish resort city of Izmir finished searching buildings that collapsed in the temblor.
As of Wednesday, all but two those killed were in Izmir, Turkey’s third-largest city. Two teenagers died on the Greek island of Samos, which lies south of the epicenter of Friday’s powerful earthquake, which registered 7.0 magnitude according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Mehmet Gulluoglu, head of Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency, said search and rescue operations had been completed at 17 buildings that fell in Izmir.