Aegean quake toll rises to 115 as search continues in Izmir

Search and rescue efforts are focusing on two collapsed buildings

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  Members of rescue services search in the debris of a collapsed building for survivors in Izmir. AP

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  Rescue workers were searching eight buildings in Izmir despite dwindling hope for survivors. AFP

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  Volunteers and rescue personnel searching for survivors in a collapsed building in Izmir. AFP

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  A police officer walks in front of a damaged building in Izmir, after a powerful earthquake struck Turkey's western coast and parts of Greece. AFP

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  A rescue worker takes a rest after an earthquake in the Aegean port city of Izmir, Turkey. Reuters

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  A rescue worker walks in a room of a partially collapsed building in Izmir. AFP

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  Excavators holding up the facade of a damaged building in Izmir, after a powerful earthquake struck Turkey's western coast and parts of Greece. AFP

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  A woman gives a phone call in an emergency tent camp for displaced people at the Eski Bornova stadium in Izmir. AFP

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  An aerial view shows a tent city set up by Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD). Reuters

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  Relatives attend a funeral ceremony for Bayram Dogruya and Hatice Dogruya who were found dead under a collapsed building after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Izmir. EPA

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  A woman prays near the graves of the two members of Dogruya family who died after a powerful earthquake. Getty Images

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  An imam prays near the graves of two members of the Dogruya family who died when a powerful earthquake. Getty Images

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  Mourners grieve during a funeral ceremony for two members of the Dogruya family who died when a powerful earthquake struck. Getty Images

Search and rescue efforts are being concentrated on two buildings in Turkey’s western city of Izmir as the death toll from Friday’s earthquake in the Aegean Sea crept up to 115, disaster authorities said early on Wednesday.

Two of victims of the tremor were teenagers on the Greek island of Samos, authorities said.

On Tuesday, 90 hours after the quake struck, rescuers in Izmir pulled a young girl alive out of the rubble, and search operations were now concentrated on two buildings.

It was the deadliest quake to hit Turkey in nearly a decade.

The quake injured 1,035 people in Izmir, with 137 still being treated, Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said.

More than 4,600 tents and 17,000 beds are being used for temporary shelters in Turkey, the agency said.

Turkey is crossed by fault lines and is prone to earthquakes. More than 500 people were killed in a 2011 quake in the eastern city of Van, while another in January this year killed 41 people in the eastern province of Elazig.

In 1999, two powerful quakes killed 18,000 people in northwestern Turkey. AFAD said Friday’s earthquake had a magnitude of 6.6, with 1,670 aftershocks.