Turkey: Earthquake survivors avoid damaged buildings
Hundreds of people spent the night in tents or vehicles in central Turkey, after an earthquake knocked down buildings, killing at least 45 people in a rural swathe of central Turkey.
Sunday’s magnitude-6 quake injured at least 170 people and toppled 150 buildings, most of them old brick and mud houses, shoddily built shops or state-owned buildings.
With more than a dozen aftershocks jolting the region, officials urged residents to stay away from damaged buildings.
The quake was less destructive than a pair of earthquakes that killed 18,000 people in the north-west of the country in 1999.
Badly constructed buildings were blamed for the large number of deaths in those quakes and some constructors have since been put on trial.
