The World - News from June 26, 1988
The threat of more rockslides interrupted rescue work in the entombed Turkish village of Catak as hopes faded for victims of Thursday’s landslide. The Anatolian News Agency quoted a Turkish official as saying that 44 people, including three German tourists, are missing. About 200 Turkish searchers and a West German team using specially trained dogs are hunting for survivors in the village, buried under half a million tons of sodden earth and rock. The rescue workers were concentrating their search at a roadside restaurant where villagers said about 30 travelers were eating breakfast when the slide struck.
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