Tornadoes and storms ripping through several central states in the US have killed two people and injured dozens, officials say.

Tornadoes and storms ripping through several central states in the US have killed two people and injured dozens, officials say.

A magnitude-5.0 quake has shaken eastern Turkey – a region already devastated by two powerful tremors, the country’s Kandilli observatory said.

Searchers today ended efforts to find anyone else alive in the rubble of an earthquake-shattered hotel in eastern Turkey.

The body of one of two journalists missing in the rubble of a hotel in Turkey has been discovered as the death toll in the second earthquake to strike the east of the country in recent weeks reached 25.

Rescue workers have recovered the bodies of five more victims of Turkey’s latest earthquake, increasing the death toll to at least 17, including a Japanese aid worker who came after last month’s devastating quake.

The death toll from Turkey’s latest earthquake rose to at least 13 today as rescue workers pulled another body from the rubble.

RIOT police fired tear gas and used batons to disperse protesters angry at the state’s relief efforts after an earthquake, the second in eastern Turkey within three weeks, killed at least eight people in the city of Van.

The death toll is mounting after an earthquake in eastern Turkey, with at least seven people killed and dozens more trapped by collapsed buildings.

At least three people have been killed and more than 50 are trapped in the rubble after a hotel collapsed when an earthquake struck eastern Turkey, media reports said.

THE death toll from last week’s earthquake in southeast Turkey rose to 596 yesterday, the day after authorities stopped searching for survivors and focused on helping thousands of homeless families in crisis.

Turkish workers have started razing damaged buildings and clearing the debris of collapsed ones a week after a massive earthquake killed at least 596 people.

A 13-YEAR-OLD boy was pulled from a collapsed building without injury five days after Turkey’s powerful earthquake struck, and state-run TV said he survived by drinking rain water that seeped through cracks in the wreckage around him.

Rescuers working under floodlights, pulled a 13-year-old boy alive from the rubble of a collapsed apartment building today, more than 100 hours after a massive earthquake levelled buildings in eastern Turkey, killing at least 550 people.

RESCUE workers last night pulled out a man alive from the rubble more than 100 hours after an earthquake that killed more than 500 people in eastern Turkey.

Rescuers have pulled out a man alive from the rubble of a collapsed building four days after a powerful earthquake hit eastern Turkey, killing 532 people.

TURKEY struggled to provide shelter yesterday to tens of thousands left homeless by an earthquake that killed nearly 500, and rescue teams began taking painful decisions to call off searches for those buried alive.

Ireland will provide emergency aid valued at €300,000 for thousands of earthquake victims in Turkey, it was announced tonight.

Turkey’s prime minister has accused shoddy construction firms of murder after so many buildings collapsed in the country’s deadly earthquake.

An 18-year-old university student was pulled out injured, but alive from the ruins of an apartment building early today, 61 hours after the devastating Turkey earthquake.

A TWO-WEEK-OLD girl has been rescued from the rubble of the Turkish earthquake after being trapped for two days.

Rescue workers have pulled three members of the same family from the rubble of Turkey's earthquake which has killed at least 370 people.

A two-week-old baby girl has been pulled alive from the rubble of an apartment building that collapsed in the Turkish earthquake.

Thousands of people in eastern Turkey have spent a second night outdoors in near-freezing conditions, afraid to return to their homes following a deadly earthquake that has been followed by hundreds of aftershocks.

FOUR people were pulled alive from the rubble yesterday when one managed to call for help on his mobile phone after a 7.2-magnitude quake levelled buildings and killed 279 people in eastern Turkey.

Dozens of people remained trapped in mounds of concrete, twisted steel and debris today after the earthquake that struck two Turkish cities.

The death toll in a powerful earthquake in eastern Turkey has risen to at least 217, the country’s interior minister said.

AT least 85 people have been killed with hundreds more feared dead after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Turkey.

A powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Turkey today, collapsing dozens of buildings into piles of twisted steel and chunks of concrete. Desperate survivors dug into the rubble with their bare hands, trying to rescue the trapped and injured.

A powerful quake has killed 30 people and injured 150 others in the eastern town of Ercis, according to state television.

A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.2 struck eastern Turkey today, collapsing some buildings and causing a number of deaths according to officials.

A powerful earthquake has collapsed some buildings in the centre of eastern Turkish city of Van, according to the country’s state-run news agency.

Five prisoners were burned to death when a prison van caught fire in a town in central Turkey.

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Turkish police have detained four people following a bomb attack yesterday in which five people were killed, a prosecutor said today.

A remote-controlled bomb exploded in a tea garden in Turkey today, killing two people and injuring seven others.

At least 17 people were killed and 25 injured today when a bus carrying Iranian tourists crashed into a truck in eastern Turkey.

A steam boiler in a military barracks exploded today, killing four soldiers and injuring 11 in eastern Turkey, the state-owned Anatolia news agency reported.

The bodies of four more passengers were pulled from a Turkish river today, as rescuers attempted to account for all of the people missing after a bus careened off a cliff into raging waters below.

A bus carrying 40 people left a road and plunged into a river today, killing at least 14 passengers and injuring 11 others.

A bomb set off by suspected Kurdish guerrillas killed three people and injured 18 others today in Turkey’s Kurdish-dominated south-east.