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  • Syria earthquake: 20 inmates escape jail housing Islamic State terrorists

    The army police jail within the city of Rajo close to the Turkish border holds about 2,000 inmates, with about 1,300 of them suspected to be IS fighters.

    New Delhi,UPDATED: Feb 7, 2023 14:34 IST

    Civil protection staff comb search via the wreckage of collapsed buildings in Hama, Syria. (AP photograph)

    By India Today Web Desk: Following a lethal earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria on Monday, at the very least 20 prisoners took benefit and escaped from a northwestern Syrian jail holding largely Islamic State (IS) terrorists.

    The army police jail within the city of Rajo close to the Turkish border holds about 2,000 inmates, with about 1,300 of them suspected to be IS fighters, as reported by the information company AFP.

    The 7.8-magnitude quake — which was adopted by dozens of aftershocks within the area — precipitated injury to the jail, with partitions and doorways cracking.

    “After the earthquake struck, Rajo was affected and inmates started to mutiny and took control of parts of the prison,” mentioned the official at Rajo jail.

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    The incident in Rajo comes on the heels of an IS assault in December on a safety complicated of their former de facto Syrian capital of Raqa, which aimed to free fellow jihadists from a jail there, AFP reported.

    The demise toll within the earthquakes that hit Turkey and Syria crossed 4,000 on Tuesday. An extra 14,483 folks had been injured at the same time as rescue operations had been underway to tug out extra survivors from beneath the rubble.

    Three quakes of magnitude 7.8, 7.6 and 6.0 struck one after the opposite, leaving 1000’s of collapsed buildings in its wake. A 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck the central Turkey area on Tuesday. More than 5,600 buildings had been destroyed in Turkey alone and round 224 extra in northwestern Syria.

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    Feb 7, 2023

  • Uttarakhand catastrophe: Three our bodies recovered from Rishiganga energy undertaking web site

    Three our bodies have been recovered from the Rishiganga energy undertaking web site in Raini village, Joshimath, on Tuesday.
    According to officers, the Kundan group, which runs the undertaking at web site, has supplied them with a listing of 44 individuals who had been on obligation on the plant on the time of the flash flood. Two police personnel had been additionally on the web site when the incident befell on Sunday morning.
    Villagers, nonetheless, say that there’s a probability that greater than 70 persons are caught underneath particles. “Around eight people from the nearby villages are missing. The water and sludge came with such force that we have no idea what to make of the disappearances,” stated Bhavan Rana, sarpanch of Raini village.
    Senior NDRF officers stated that work to clear the roads and the seek for lacking individuals will take no less than per week. The BRO, State and nationwide catastrophe aid forces, and police are assiting in rescue and aid work. The most important bridge that connects the Joshimath space to the villages nearer to the India-China border was destroyed within the flash floods. As a consequence 13 villages have been lower off by highway and requirements are being supplied to them by way of choppers.