AMILOADED MEDIA HUB NEWS UPDATE
A third earthquake rocked Turkey early this morning after two others caused devastation across the southwest of the country and northern Syria yesterday.
The 5.8-magnitude quake struck at a depth of 1.2 miles in central Turkey, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said, as rescue efforts continued and as the death toll in Turkey alone rose past 3,300.
According to report, a winter storm causing freezing temperatures – which dropped to -5C overnight in some areas – has been hampering those working desperately to free people from the rubble of destroyed buildings, with the cold weather making the need to reach trapped survivors even more urgent.
The death toll in Turkey and Syria is now approaching 5,000, with rescuers locked in a race against time to free as many people from the rubble as possible before it’s too late.
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