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TURKS LOOT LORRIES CARRYING AID FOR EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS
PanARMENIAN.Net
October 27, 2011 - 10:53 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The Turkish Red Crescent said that 17 lorries
carrying aid for the Turkish earthquake victims have been looted.
Local officials in the city of Van said that survivors, furious at
not receiving supplies, had raided the convoy for food and blankets,
BBC reported.
In the worst-hit town of Ercis, thieves stopped a lorry carrying
tents. Two more people were pulled alive from the rubble on Wednesday,
October 26, but hopes are fading that more survivors will be found.
More than 480 people are known to have died in the October 23
earthquake, but the Red Crescent believes that hundreds are still
trapped under the rubble, feared dead. Rescue workers are trying to
get food and blankets to survivors as temperatures plummet in the
mountainous region.
Thousands of people - who have been left homeless - are spending a
fourth night in freezing weather conditions and snow.
Turkey has said it will accept offers of aid from foreign countries to
cope with the aftermath of the earthquake, after initially declining
offers of help.
PanARMENIAN.Net
October 27, 2011 - 10:53 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The Turkish Red Crescent said that 17 lorries
carrying aid for the Turkish earthquake victims have been looted.
Local officials in the city of Van said that survivors, furious at
not receiving supplies, had raided the convoy for food and blankets,
BBC reported.
In the worst-hit town of Ercis, thieves stopped a lorry carrying
tents. Two more people were pulled alive from the rubble on Wednesday,
October 26, but hopes are fading that more survivors will be found.
More than 480 people are known to have died in the October 23
earthquake, but the Red Crescent believes that hundreds are still
trapped under the rubble, feared dead. Rescue workers are trying to
get food and blankets to survivors as temperatures plummet in the
mountainous region.
Thousands of people - who have been left homeless - are spending a
fourth night in freezing weather conditions and snow.
Turkey has said it will accept offers of aid from foreign countries to
cope with the aftermath of the earthquake, after initially declining
offers of help.