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A three-year-old girl was rescued from the rubble in the city of Izmir, Turkey, along with the continuation of rescue efforts on 8 buildings, bringing the death toll from the earthquake to 81.
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Turkish officials said rescue efforts on eight buildings in the city of Izmir resumed on Monday.
Turkish Anadolu Agency reported on Monday about saving a third-year girl after spending 65 hours under the rubble in Izmir due to earthquake.
Turkish officials said rescue efforts on 8 buildings in the western Turkish city of Izmir resumed on Monday, at a time when the death toll from the earthquake that struck the Aegean region last Friday rose to 81 people.
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Saving a three-year-old girl after spending 65 hours under the ruins of an earthquake in the Turkish city of Izmir. pic.twitter.com/aCKyNp7Q8F
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Turkish authorities said 79 people died, all in Izmir, while two young men died on the Greek island of Samos.
The Turkish Emergency and Disaster Administration (AFAD) stated that the authorities distributed more than 3,500 tents and 13,000 beds to provide shelters for those affected. He added that 962 people were injured in the earthquake. And the administration stated that so far more than 740 affected people have been discharged from hospitals.
The Institute for Seismological Research and the Kandeli Observatory in Istanbul said that the earthquake that struck Izmir last Friday, with a magnitude of 6.9 on the Richter scale, had its epicenter in the Aegean Sea, northeast of the island. of Samos.
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