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32 dead in fresh Turkey quake

November 13, 2011 00:00:00


ISTANBUL, Nov 12 (AFP): The death toll from a 5.6 magnitude earthquake that struck eastern Turkey rose to 32 today, including two journalists, authorities said. Announcing the new toll, which stood at 27 earlier today, the emergency unit of the prime minister's office said on its website that 30 people had been rescued since the quake Wednesday. Rescuer workers overnight retrieved the bodies of two reporters from the private Dogan news agency -- 26-year-old Cem Emir and 58-year-old Sebahattin Yilmaz-from the debris of a hotel which was toppled by the earthquake. The journalists were in the area to report on last month's much deadlier earthquake, which killed more than 600 people.

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