A strong earthquake toppled a school dormitory in southeastern Turkey on Thursday, trapping dozens of children under debris and killing at least 13 people in a nearby town, reports said.
Rescuers had saved at least 50 students but another 85 were still under the wreckage in Bingol, some 700 km east of Ankara, Deputy Gov. Huseyin Oner told private NTV television. Some 135 students are housed in the dormitory, Gov. Huseyin Avni Cos told NTV.
The magnitude-6.4 earthquake struck the region around 3:30 a.m. Thursday and was centered just outside Bingol, the Kandilli seismology center in Istanbul said.
At least 13 people were killed and hundreds of homes destroyed in the nearby town of Cimenli, NTV said. (Albawaba.com)
