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Added on the 02/08/2021 17:40:42 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
A thermal power plant and its surrounding town on the Aegean Sea are being evacuated as a deadly wildfire that has ravaged Turkey for the past week engulfs its outer edge. The defence ministry said it was evacuating villagers by sea as bright balls of orange flames tore through the hills encircling the plant. IMAGES
People navigate in boats through the flooded streets of Porto Alegre, Brazil, as floods and mudslides have killed at least 66 and forced more than 80,000 to flee their homes, according to authorities. IMAGES
Rescue workers, residents, and journalists gather in front of a collapsed building in Antakya as a new 6.4 magnitude earthquake shook the southern Turkish province of Hatay and northern Syria following the 6 February tremor that killed nearly 45,000 people in both countries. IMAGES
Rescuers unload people wounded in a deadly 7.8-magnitude quake from an ambulance into tents at a French-opened field hospital in Adiyaman, Turkey. Last week's tragedy killed nearly 40,000 people across swathes of the southeast of the country and neighbouring northwest Syria, becoming the area's deadliest natural disaster in centuries. IMAGES