European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday March 17, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 9quake toll prompts building probe Erz incan Turkey apr the government has announced an inquiry into building practices in Erz incan hit hardest by an earthquake whose High death toll is being blamed on illegal additions to buildings and faulty construction. Fridays quake which measured 6.8 on the Richter scale left As Many As 800 people dead and As Many As 180,000 homeless in three provinces of Eastern Turkey according to the government and . Relief officials. Aftershocks continued to rattle the stricken area on sunday As Rescue workers intensified their Hunt for survivors believed buried under mountains of rubble. Since Friday six powerful aftershocks have hit the disaster area including one sunday evening that measured 6.0 on the Richter scale. The sunday temblor sent panicked residents Rushing into Erzin can a streets. Sundays quake damaged scores of buildings. The governor of the neighbouring province of Tuncell reported two people injured in the temblor the sem official Anatolia news Agency reported. Rescue teams from Switzerland Germany the United states Denmark Italy and other countries meanwhile rushed to Erz incan with dogs blow torches cranes and other equipment to help find survivors of fridays quake. The City 350 Miles East of Ankara suffered severe damaged. A fifth Relief flight from in Ciurlik a to Erz incan took off in spite of rain monday morning. Mondays c-130 Hercules Mission May be the last flight possible for a few Days. Forecasts indicate that weather along the 300-mile route Between in Ciurlik and Erz incan May be bad. Visibility Over Erz incan according to predictions May also deteriorate making Landing there hazardous. The aircraft carried fuel for portable lighting equipment and a four wheel drive vehicle for personnel both flown into Erz incan sunday said air Force staff sgt. Doris Jackson of the operation provide Comfort combined information Bureau. Rescue workers on sunday dug at least two people from rubble who had survived despite two nights of sub freezing temperatures. A some have been found alive there is still Hope a said Kurt Keller a Rescue specialist with Swiss disaster Relief. Rescue workers using trained dogs and listening devices believed one or two girls were alive beneath a collapsed five Story dormitory. A i heard the voice myself. It said a help a a said Muarem Karatas a teacher at the nursing school. He said 17 girls were missing. Rescue efforts concentrated on big buildings including restaurants that when the quake struck were filled with patrons about to sit Down to break a Daylong fast mandated by the Muslim Holiday of Ramadan. A since we done to have enough heavy equipment we have to set priorities based on the number of people believed to be in a building said police officer Rifat Aksoy. Elsewhere families kept a Vigil outside a makeshift morgue crumbling against the building with anguished sobs when they Learned a loved one had died. At City offices officials handed out shrouds to wrap the dead. Gen. Osman Ilgaz in charge of the turkish army in the Northeast said sunday that 320 bodies had been recovered turkish news reports said. The count was expected to Rise sharply. Ursula Steeb 21, a member of a Rescue team from Germany give. Her trained dog Sara a hand As they search sunday for earthquake victims at Erz incan Turkey.5 More bodies recovered from North sea crash London up a Rescue teams have recovered five More bodies from the wreckage of a helicopter that it plummeted into the North sea off the scottish Shet and islands killing 11 people. The super Puma helicopter was carrying two Crew members and 15 workers from the 300,000-ton Shell Cormorant Alpha Oil Rig platform saturday. It was headed to the accommodation Barge Safe us about 200 Yards away when it crashed. The Accident occurred on one of the years coldest and windiest nights in the North sea with freezing weather and 35-foot Waves. Six survivors including the Pilot were rescued and supporter six bodies recovered after the helicopter crashed 100 Miles Northeast of Lerwick Shetland. Five More bodies were found sunday night a police spokesman said. Chris Fay managing director of Shell exploration said a telescopic Bridge linking the two structures had been out of operation for three Days because of the weather. A spokesman for Bristow helicopters the company operating the super Puma helicopter said the aircraft was operating within its safety limits. Malcolm Rifkind Britain a transport Secretary ordered an inquiry into the crash. A we will need to know whether it was weather conditions that contributed or whether it was something to do with the helicopter itself a Rifkind said. But Union leaders called for an examination into the conditions in which the North sea helicopters Fly. A the work Force must have a say in the safety of their helicopter transport which includes the conditions in which it flies a said Roger Lyons general Secretary of the offshore workers Union mss. Frank Doran of the opposition labor party also expressed concern about the third major loss of life involving helicopters in the North sea since 1986. Fireworks rocket kills boy at stadium Barcelona Spain a a 13-year-old youth was killed when he was hit in the Chest by a fireworks rocket while watching a soccer match sunday in Barcelona news reports said. Citing officials the reports said Guillermo Lazaro was nit by the rocket fired from one of the terraces at the stadium. The rocket instead of rising cruised across the Field and flew into the stands. Police arrested two men following the incident which occurred shortly after the first division game Between Espanol and Cadiz began. Reports said Guillermo was attending the match with his 10-year-old brother and parents. His father was burned while trying to extract the rocket parts from the boys Chest. Russia denies Iran got 2 nuclear missiles Moscow apr russian and kazakh officials on monday denied a German Magazine report that Iran has obtained two Middle Range nuclear missiles and their delivery systems from the former soviet Republic of Kazakhstan. Stem Magazine said sunday that vice president Paul Minstermann of the Federal intelligence service reported the development to the chancellors a a Security service More than two weeks ago. Iran however has not obtained . Requests Manila Philippines up a president Corazon Aquino said monday that the United states has requested Access to a military Airport at Subic Bay naval facilities following . Withdrawal from the installation later this year. Philippine officials indicated the request would not include the stationing of codes needed to detonate the warheads and it does not have a suitable launching mechanism the Hamburg based Magazine said. A the information is not True a said russian defense ministry spokesman Ivan Krolnik. A fall nuclear weapons Are under the strictest centralized control and Selling them or stealing them is Stern speculated that Iran would use air base Access . Troops at the air facility Cubi Point which is attached to Subic. A there is a pending request from the United states for the use of air support facilities under the Mutual defense treaty a Aquino said in a statement. Officials at the . Embassy declined comment. The warheads for study As part of its nuclear weapons development program. In Washington . News and world report quoted an unidentified High ranking russian officer in Moscow As confirming a . Intelligence report that three Short Range nuclear weapons have vanished from a former red army Arsenal in Kazakhstan. The Magazine said analysts suspect the weapons have been sold to Iran. Aquino says philippine military officials said the re 3uest will be discussed in regular joint defense talks Between the two countries scheduled later this week. A they americans May be granted some sort of Access to Cubi a press Secretary Horacio Paredes said. A but certainly not for
