An earthquake of 7.2 magnitude rocked eastern Turkey Sunday, the strongest to hit the country in years. “500 to 1,000 people are estimated to have been killed in the quake,” Professor Mustafa Erdik, director of the Kandilli seismological institute in Istanbul, told a news conference. Earlier reports did not speak of casualties but many were feared trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings and officials warned they were struggling to assess the extent of the damage.

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