Earthquake in Turkey

Last year, there were a lot of disasters. The news story was an earthquake in east Turkey. I read this news story because it was a very sad story. So I will introduce about this news story. The title is “Death toll rises to 366 in Turkey”.

ERCIS, Turkey (Reuters)－Rescue workers dug deeper into collapsed buildings Tuesday in a battle against time to find survivors from an earthquake in east Turkey that killed at least 366 people and made tens of thousands homeless.

As hope of finding people alive under tons of rubble faded with every passing hour, rescuers pulled out more bodies while residents slept around small fires in towns rattled by aftershocks across Van Province, near the Iranian border.

A 14-day-old baby was rescued alive from the rubble of a collapsed building, 46 hours after the earthquake, a Reuters Television journalist said.

Five bodies were carried out in body bags from one crumpled building alone in the hard-hit town of Ercis as by standers wept. Workers used heavy machinery, jackhammers, shovels and bare hands to comb through smashed concrete and steel.

The disaster and Emergency Administration said Tuesday the death toll had risen to 366, with 1,301 people injured. The overnight death toll stood at 279. The death count is likely to rise further as many people are still missing and 2,262 buildings have collapsed.

  Casualties have been mostly in Ercis and the provincial capital, Van. Officials are checking outlying areas. “It was like judgment day,” said Mesut Ozan Yilmaz, 18, who survived for 32 hours under the rubble of a tea house.

I was very surprised that I read about a story of a 14-day-old baby. He was rescued alive from the rubble of a collapsed building, 46 hours after the earthquake. I felt relieved and felt easy. But the earthquake made a lot of death and missing people. It was very sad accident.

But last March 11, there was a big earthquake in Tohoku. In those days, I remembered to watch it in my house on TV. First time, I didn’t know what happened. But time passed, I understood that it was a very big accident. I want to know about it and if I have a chance I want to help for them.

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