Turkish health minister Fahrettin Koca visits 16-year-old earthquake survivor in hospital
Turkish health minister Fahrettin Koca visited 16-year-old earthquake survivor Inci Okan in hospital on Saturday, after she was dug out of the devastated eighth-floor apartment block where she was living.
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Turkish health minister Fahrettin Koca visited 16-year-old earthquake survivor Inci Okan in hospital on Saturday, after she was dug out of the devastated eighth-floor apartment block where she was living.
Her dog, Fistik, or Pistachio, was also rescued.
Emergency workers continued working on a collapsed building in western Turkey on Sunday, some 34 hours after a strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea struck Turkey and Greece, killing 44 people and injuring more than 900.
The earthquake, which the Istanbul-based Kandilli Institute said had a magnitude of 6.9, struck on Friday and was centred in the Aegean northeast of Samos.
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Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency, or AFAD said it measured 6.6 and hit at a depth of some 16 kilometres (10 miles).
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