Ankara (dapd). Rescue teams searched feverishly the night after the earthquake in the eastern Turkey survivors. Under the rubble, still tens victims are suspected. The number of deaths after the earthquake of force 7.2 Sunday passed to the Department of the Turkish Interior at least 217. in ten hours, there was in the region of 100 replicas, including force of 6.0.

Hundreds of rescue workers searched on the generators of Flutlichtern in the night of Monday buried person. Agencies providing tents, hospitals and mobile kitchens to help victims. Many spent the night fearing aftershocks in the open air. Heavy workers with attempts to free the Unglücksorte of debris.

Rescue work continued Monday, particularly in buildings, where rescue workers suspected the survivors, said the Turkish Minister of the Interior Idris Naim ?ahin. Alone in the town of Ercis, on 80 houses of several floors collapsed. There are still buried under the rubble of about 40 buildings. The number of victims could increase significantly. The Minister gave no estimates.

At least 117 people were in the city of 75,000 – inhabitants of Ercis, near the border with the Iran. 100 died the capital of the province hardest affected by the earthquake in the largest, 90 km South City van. 740 People in the region were injured in the earthquake, including Ausl?ufer were felt in the Iran and the Armenia. Authorities warned people to stay away from buildings damaged by Einsturzgefahr with more possible replicas.

Also 150 prisoners from a prison in Van fuits, once there, one of the walls collapsed.

Inhabitants of van Ercis is are gathered around fires camp, then only auxiliary of the Red Crescent began Sunday night to set up tents for the many homeless. “We leave only zero in cold winter to itself”, the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said Sunday night. A number of countries in the Turkey offered to assist rescue work. Erdogan depending on the country not currently on the outside help is dependent. The Azerbaijan, the Iran and the Bulgaria still sent support. Also, Israel and the Greece offers to help.

Heavy aftershocks complicate the search for the buried person. Ten hours after the earthquake the scientific Sunday afternoon in the United States had registered more than 100 aftershocks, one with a strength of 6.0.

In Turkey, again and again it comes to earthquakes, there are several fault lines. Only in March 2010, 51 people were killed in the earthquake of 6.0 force in South-East of the Turkey, died in an earthquake of the 177 people force 6.4 in the city of Bingol, in the southeast of the country. in 1999, 18,000 people were killed in two earthquakes in the Northwest of the Turkey.

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