Severe Earthquake Rocks Turkey
Received Friday, 11 a.m. , ANKARA, August 18. The official Turkish news agency reports that at ieast 20 people were killed and 52 injured in an earthquake which rocked a wide area in Eastern Turkey today. Semi-official sources said that 1200 people are homeless. Panicstricken people were camping in the fields outside the town of Erzerum. A village near Erzerum, which was the epicentre of the earthquake, was completely destroyed.
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Chronicle (Levin), 19 August 1949, Page 5
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