At least 12 people reportedly died in a powerful blast that ripped through an explosives plant in Turkey's Karesi district of Balikesir province on Tuesday. The blast took place at 8:25 am at a section of the plant which local officials said collapsed under the force of the explosion. Balikesir Governor Ismail Ustaoglu said the explosion collapsed the capsule production …
Al Jazeera speaks to people pulled from the rubble at a hospital in Osmaniye about how they held on for help. I was trying to motivate myself – telling myself, ‘you’ve almost made it’ – but I passed out three or four times in those hours. But I had no time to panic, I was just trying to describe the …
