DEVELOPING: Rescuers race to find Turkey quake survivors, 28 dead

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Rescuers raced against the clock Saturday to save people buried under rubble as hundreds spent a terrified night in tents after a powerful earthquake claimed 28 lives in Turkey and Greece.

Also killing two teenagers on their way home from school in Greece, it caused a mini-tsunami on the Aegean island of Samos and a sea surge that turned streets into rushing rivers in one Turkish coastal town.In Bayrakli, Turkish families and friends looked on in agony, exhaustion and hope as workers painstakingly went through the rubble of two completely flattened buildings.

"It was so cold last night," said Nilgun Yikariz, 59, who was sleeping on the grass in a small tent outside her apartment."Those curtains, they belonged to my daughter's in-laws," Akkoyun told AFP."We will wait all night. God willing they will come out alive." As Cemalettin Enginyurt, 51, and his family settled inside their white tent, he described feeling"helpless".

The latest earthquake will renew fears over when Istanbul might be hit by a big tremor after the devastating 7.4-magnitude one in 1999 in Izmit, western Turkey.This is the second powerful earthquake to hit Turkey this year, after one in the eastern city of Elazig killed more than 30 people in January.On the Greek island of Samos, which is home to a large migrants camp, the civil protection agency described the situation as"extremely difficult".

 

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