On Monday evening, two earthquakes jolted Turkey's southernmost Hatay province, just two weeks after major quakes hit the region, the country's disaster management agency said.
On Thursday, two women were pulled from the debris in Turkey's southern city of Kahramanmaras, and a mother and two children were rescued in Antakya nine days after the earthquake. The rescue in Antakya came 228 hours after the earthquake, VOA reported citing the state-owned Anadolu news
Associate professor Clare Kirkpatrick, who studies bacterial stress-response at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Southern Denmark, has said, "we have found five new species that we believe are unknown to science."
A 19-year-old youth with a severe head injury was airlifted by the Indian Navy from Agatti Island to Kochi in a Dornier aircraft, Southern Naval Command said on Thursday.
Madurai police foiled a smuggling bid and seized 951 kgs of Contraband (ganja) along with the arrest of two persons during checking in Tamil Nadu's Madurai.
In 2022, the Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel of Madurai Division, Southern Railway rescued a total of 231 children, officials said on Wednesday.
The confirmed death toll from the deadliest quake in the region in two decades stood at more than 24,000 across southern Turkey and northwest Syria four days after it hit.
At least 100 aftershocks measuring 4.0 or greater have occurred since the 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck southern Turkey on Monday morning local time.