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A strong earthquake has killed at least 57 people that has struck remote villages in eastern Turkey. There are around 50 other people injured. The disaster or shake with a magnitude of 6 on the Richter scale struck in the early hours of morning, making down houses in a destruction in at least six small villages. There are two version of news about the victims, The Turkish government’s crisis center says around 100 people were injured, although other reports put the figure at 50. In one village witnesses say everything has been knocked down. Not a stone has been left in place. Emergency workers are still trying to rescue people from the debris. Authority officials say the initial quake has been followed by about 30 aftershocks. Earthquakes are frequent in Turkey, which sits on top of the north Anatolian line.

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Twenty three  citizens  confirmed dead in Monday’s massive landslide that buried  fraction  of a  town  in north China’s Shanxi Province,  regional   governments  said Tuesday. The landslide swept  across  six homes on Monday at the Zhangjiaju Village, in Zhangzishan Township of Zhongyang County.

A spokesman with the county federal said the final body was recovered early Tuesday and 12 of the dead were male and 11 female.  The victims were migrant employees at a nearby coal mine and their families. They were from five households from the Qiaojia County, in the southwestern Yunnan Province, the spokesman said. More than 300 citizens had helped in the rescue operation.

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