Monday, October 24, 2011

Cold night for Turkish survivors

Thousands of people are spending a second night outside in freezing temperatures after Sunday's earthquake that killed at least 265 people.

The earthquake struck eastern Van province, close to the Iranian border, at 1:41 p.m. local time, Turkey's National Earthquake Monitoring Centre said. The centre reported the quake's magnitude as 6.6, while the United States Geological Survey said it measured 7.2.

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