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DLCUK, Turkey (.AP) — Terri-
resi dents jumped from windows
erday as a strong aftershock jolt-
^fcame area of western TUrkey
ere 15,000 people died in an
hqtiake last month. At least sev-
eople were killed and more than
were injured.
n the hard-hit coastal town of
cuk, one building damaged in
Aug. 17 temblor slid into the
, apparently trapping four peo-
who had gone inside to salvage
belongings.
Jicue workers from the civil de-
ejfhe military and a civilian res-
group were on a 6-foot corner
ion of the building jutting from
Igater, pulling at the rubble.
Jllivers searched the water.
Our only chance is that they
out of the water,” rescue work-
^■■e Ayan said.
Rescue workers were also
ling debris from at least one oth-
site in Golcuk where survivors
ght be trapped.
The quake had a magnitude of
5.8 and was centered in Izmit, just
northeast of Golcuk and 50 miles
southeast of Istanbul, the city’s
Kandilli Observatory reported.
'7t was very disorienting.
[The buildings] moved
so much it looked like
rubber."
— John Augsburger
Earthquake witness
“It was very disorienting,” John
Augsburger, a structural engineer
from Harrisonburg, Va., who was
in Golcuk at the time of the after
shock, said. “We were right next to
a building. It moved so much, it
looked like rubber. ”
Most of the injured suffered
broken bones jumping from build
ings in hopes of reaching safety
on the street.
Isa Ersozer was in a second-
floor barbershop in Izmit when the
building began to shake.
“The stairs were full of people
trying to get out, so I just jumped,”
he said, sitting in a wheelchair in a
field hospital, his foot covered in
bandages.
Throughout the town, people
rushed to hospitals, desperate for
news about their loved ones.
Three people were killed in
nearby Kocaeli when a building fell
on their car, Istanbul Deputy Gov
ernor Ali Cafer Akyuz said. Anoth
er three were killed in that town
when the building they were in col
lapsed, he said.
A woman in the town of Ada-
pazari died of a heart attack, state-
owned TRT television reported.
More than 420 people were be
ing treated from injuries or severe
psychological trauma, state-owned
TRT television reported.
Moscow officials seek suspect
u 2nd apartment explosion
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MOSCOW (AP) — Dozens of people were missing
d believed buried under tons of wreckage yesterday
ter a suspected bomb pulverized an eight-story apart-
: ' ent building in Moscow, killing at least 73 people.
Authorities blamed terrorists for the pre-dawn blast
id appealed for help finding a man who allegedly
nted space in that building and an-
’■j ' her that was blown up four days
irlier. More than 200 people have
led in explosions in Russia during
'ivunve. ie p ast two wee k s
• The government ordered a mas-
' ive security operation in the capi-
eneuay jaq anc j 0 ther cities. Police checked
ji J /’ i'j topic’s identity papers at metro
\ticms and other crowded areas,
.huranti d searched for stores of explosives in buildings
hit cannams | 0 fc s Moscow.
j. a ht&ty 1 y R Uss i an leaders promised to deal harshly with
it should lomever was responsible for the explosions, al-
leral law un aU gh no one immediately claimed responsibility.
;sity defense, President Boris Yeltsin said terrorists had declared
1 the ruling ir on the country.
ling o(the0; “Terrorists are trying to scare the Russian people,
patients iey are trying to demoralize the state,” he said in a
ecessitv tionally televised address.
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YELTSIN
Yeltsin ordered tight security at airports, nuclear
power stations, oil pipelines and other possible tar
gets across the country. He gave Moscow Mayor Yuri
Luzhkov 24 hours to have all 30,000 residential build
ings in the city searched for explosives.
Luzkhov said crowded areas such as markets and
public transportation vehicles would be patrolled
more tightly and hinted that the capital’s “guests,” or
travelers — especially those not registered with the
police — could be evicted.
He linked the two latest blasts to fighting in the south
ern region of Dagestan, where government troops are
battling Islamic rebels who have occupied several vil
lages. Interior Minister Vladimir Rushailo said the ex
plosions were linked to two warlords in Chechnya who
are leading the offensive in Dagestan: Shamil Basayev
and Khattab, a Jordanian who goes by one name.
Sixty-two families, or 150 people, were registered
as living in the building that blew up just before dawn
yesterday, but police said there were no estimates of
how many were home at the time.
The entire building crashed to the ground, its beige
bricks crushed to rubble and dust. The building was
located in a quiet residential area, close to a school
and two kindergartens,'just four miles from the site of
Thursday’s blast.
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