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Children plucked from ruins days after earthquake, but death tolls tops 22,000

Children plucked from ruins days after earthquake, but death tolls tops 22,000

RESCUE crews saved a 10-day-old baby and his mother trapped in the ruins of a building in Turkey and dug several people from other sites as President Tayyip Erdogan said authorities should have reacted faster to this week's huge earthquake. The confirmed death toll from the deadliest quake in the region in two decades stood at more than 22,000 across southern Turkey and northwest Syria four days after it hit. Hundreds of thousands more people have been left homeless and short of food in bleak winter conditions and leaders in both countries have faced questions about their response. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad made…
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Scores feared dead as rescuers soldier on nearly week after Florida condo collapse

Scores feared dead as rescuers soldier on nearly week after Florida condo collapse

GABRIELLA BORTER RESCUE crews found more bodies overnight in the shattered ruins of a collapsed Miami-area condominium tower, the leader of an Israeli search team has said, after days of scant progress in discovering the fate of dozens of people still missing. Twelve people have been confirmed killed in the disaster, which could rank as one of the deadliest accidental structural failures in U.S. history. But 149 others were still missing and believed trapped in the rubble. Nobody has been pulled alive from the mounds of pulverized concrete, splintered lumber and twisted metal since the early hours of the disaster.…
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