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Update: Five Coast Guard crew flying out to help quake victims are killed in Japan plane crash

Five people on board a Coast Guard aircraft died after a collision with a Japan Airlines plane at Haneda airport in Tokyo, Japan’s capital, on Tuesday, the Japanese transport minister said.      Five people on board a Coast Guard aircraft died after a collision with a Japan Airlines plane at Haneda …

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Watch Buildings collapse and people run for their lives after Magnitude 6.4 earthquake strikes Turkey, two weeks after massive quake killed thousands (videos)

A magnitude 6.4 aftershock struck Turkey on Monday, February 20, two weeks after a massive earthquake left tens of thousands of people dead in Turkey and Syria.   The quake struck Defne, a town in Turkey’s southern Hatay province, near the Syrian border, Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Agency (AFAD) …

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‘What day is it?’ woman asks rescuers, as 77-year-old also pulled from rubble more than a week after Turkey quake | CNN

'What day is it?' woman asks rescuers, as 77-year-old also pulled from rubble more than a week after Turkey quake | CNN

CNN  —  A confused woman asked her rescuers “What day is it?” when pulled alive from the rubble of last week’s earthquake after 228 hours, Turkey’s state-run news agency Anadolu reported Wednesday, as another woman aged 77 was also rescued from the debris. More than nine days after a powerful …

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