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Turkish tremor kills 150

Scores of school children buried under rubbles

REUTERS, Bingol
Turkish rescue workers dug into the wreckage of a school dormitory yesterday, searching for scores of children buried under rubble by a powerful earthquake that struck southeastern Turkey and killed up to 150.
Working through the night under floodlights to the rumble of generators, military and civil defense rescue teams slowly hacked through the crumpled concrete that was a four-story dormitory for poor students from remote villages.
Anxious relatives lit fires nearby
to keep warm against the chilly night, 24 hours after the quake struck.
"We have taken a lot of students alive out of the ruins, it is very probable there are others still alive, that is why we are working meticulously," said Major Oguz Tozak as the sun rose over the rubble.
He said rescuers suspected some 50-70 children remained unaccounted for in the collapsed building. "We will continue to work until we get all the students out," he said.
Yusuf Katkay was one of six children rescued overnight.
"They were working and they came to me, and I understood they were going to take me out. They dug and opened one hole. They gave me water and then they took me out," he told Reuters in the nearby hospital tent.
But alongside the living, rescuers also extracted bodies. The state-run Anatolian news agency said 35 children's bodies and one dead teacher had been found.
"We rushed here and we saw how right we were to be worried. I haven't seen my son and I have no idea if he's alive or dead. All I want to do is see him," Halis Agadag said.
The earthquake, measuring 6.4
on the Richter scale, struck early on Thursday morning, catching most asleep.
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said the confirmed death toll for the whole quake region was nearly 100 and officials feared it could reach 150.
The earthquake crushed buildings in the city of Bingol as well as outlying towns in the mainly Kurdish province.
A major earthquake last hit Bingol in 1971, killing about 900 people.
Two major quakes hit the north west of the country in 1999, killing some 20,000 people. Flimsy building was blamed for the high death toll on that occasion.
The government and rescue services, including the military, faced severe criticism then over their slow and ineffectual reaction to the disaster. Since then rescue operations have been revised but not put to any serious test.
Meanwhile, Turkish police fired in the air on yesterday to scatter an angry crowd demanding more help from authorities after an earthquake that killed more than 100 people, including about 40 children in a boarding school.
Working through the night, rescue workers dug into the floodlit wreckage of the school dormitory to try to reach scores more children still buried since the quake on Thursday morning.
They paused only occasionally as a survivor was lifted on a stretcher or a body recovered. Parents kept vigil, swathed in blankets before fires at the site of the catastrophe.
Anger in the southeastern city of Bingol, set in a poor and mountainous region, bubbled to the surface in the morning when more than 1,000 people marched on the governor's office. Many in the mainly Kurdish town, fearing aftershocks from the quake that shattered dozens of houses, had spent a chilly night in the open or in makeshift shelters of plastic sheeting.
Chanting "Resign, Resign!" and shaking their fists, a crowd gathered before the governor's office demanding tents and food.