Relief Aid Rushed to Quake Victims in Eastern Turkey
The government of Turkey rushed relief aid Thursday to a remote border province where more than 1,000 people were made homeless by a severe earthquake that devastated areas of neighboring Soviet Armenia.
“It was like Kars slipped on ice,” a resident of that northeastern provincial capital told a reporter.
At least four people were reported dead in Kars province after the quake Wednesday but official sources said they feared the toll would be higher. Many of the province’s mud-and-brick villages have been isolated by heavy snow in recent weeks. The quake’s epicenter was near the Soviet border city of Leninakan, about 35 miles east of Kars.
Official sources said the quake destroyed more than 200 houses and damaged at least 400 others in Kars province.
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