- Title: TURKEY: 27 DIE IN LATEST EARTHQUAKES.
- Date: 5th September 1968
- Summary: DAMAGED HOUSES AT BARTIN: DAMAGED MOSQUE: STREET OF WRECKED HOUSES: REFUGEES IN TENTS: TENTS UNLOADED FROM TRUCKS: AMASRA DAMAGE: BREAD DISTRIBUTED: REFUGEES IN RAIN. Initials PW/VS/MR/BB Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 20th September 1968 13:00
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- Location: BARTIN AND AMASRA, TURKEY
- Country: Turkey
- Reuters ID: LVA8SP25IG1ZV0C5ZRTVLJJ40UK0
- Story Text: WHILE A MAJOR EARTHQUAKE DISASTER HIT IRAN, LATER EARTH TREMORS WRECKED TWO TOWNS IN NORTH-EAST TURKEY, KILLING AN ESTIMATED 27 PEOPLE AND INJURING HUNDREDS MORE. THE EARTHQUAKE HIT THE TWO TOWNS OF BARTIN AND ASMARA, ABOUT 160 MILES (257 KMS) FROM ISTAMBUL ON MONDAY, FORTY-EIGHT HOURS AFTER THE IRAN DISASTER BECAME KNOWN.
THE CENTRE OF EARTHQUAKE WAS THE BLACK SEA TOWN OF BARTIN, BUT AMASRA AND MANY VILLAGES IN THE AREA WERE DAMAGED. THE OFFICIAL DEATH TOLL IS 27 BUT THE WIDESPREAD DAMAGE MAKES AN ACCURATE COUNT IMPOSSIBLE.
EARTH TREMORS CONTINUED LAST NIGHT WHILE HUNDREDS OF REFUGEES LEFT THEIR RUINED HOMES TO SPEND THE NIGHT IN POURING RAIN.
FROM THE TURKISH CAPITAL OF ANKARA, EMERGENCY SUPPLIES AND TENTS WERE RUSHED TO THE AREA, AND SUPPLIES OF BLOOD PLASMA WERE TAKEN WITH MEDICAL TEAMS TO DEAL WITH THE INJURED.
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