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Members of rescue services carry a wounded man, that was found in the rubble of a building destroyed on last Friday's earthquake in Elazig, eastern Turkey
TURKEY’S authoritarian government was accused of “political power games” today after blocking aid to the victims of Friday’s Elazig earthquake, in which at least 39 people were killed with thousands injured and displaced.
Representatives of the opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and former co-chair Figen Yuksekdag’s Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP) visited the area today. They reported an acute shortage of heaters and blankets, with people forced to live in makeshift buildings and tents.
According to Turkey’s Disaster & Emergency Management Authority (Afad), 72 buildings were destroyed and 514 severely damaged when the 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck on Friday night.
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