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French and Turkish rescuers, searching through the rubble in the town of Osmaniye, southern Turkey, discover a body, before bringing it to an ambulance as a crowd waits anxiously near the ruins of a building in which seven people have been found dead, according to an official report given to AFP at 22:25 local time. Search operations like this are ongoing across southern Turkey and northern parts of neighbouring Syria after Monday's 7.8-magnitude earthquake, of which the death toll has reached over 12,000. IMAGES
An Airbus A320 operated by Lufthansa’s budget Germanwings airline with 150 people on board crashed into the French Alps on Tuesday morning after an unexplained, rapid descent.
The search for Lina, a 15-year-old girl who disappeared last September in the Bas-Rhin region, resumes at the Anould site (Vosges). IMAGES
Images of French and Turkish rescuers searching through rubble in Osmaniye, southern Turkey, after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the country, devastating entire sections of major cities in southeastern Turkey and the north of Syria. The death toll reached over 11,200 three days after the disaster. IMAGES
Search and rescue workers probe the site of a pedestrian bridge collapse in the Indian state of Gujarat on Tuesday. At least 137 people died after the bridge collapsed on Sunday evening, sending hundreds tumbling into the river. Nine people were arrested on Monday in connection with the disaster.
French authorities on Wednesday released a preliminary report on the March 24 Germanwings crash, using the flight recorders and recordings of radio communications to provide the most detailed picture to date of what happened inside the plane in the moments before its copilot is suspected of crashing it into the Alps.According to the French Bureau d’Enquetes et d’Analyses accident investigation agency’s preliminary report, shortly after Germanwings flight 9525 reached a cruising altitude of 38,000 feet, the captain left the cockpit. About half a minute later, copilot Andreas Lubitz set the plane’s autopilot to fly the plane to the lowest possible altitude, 100 feet, and increased the rpm in both of the plane’s engines. After a short while, the pilot tried to re-enter the cockpit. He used the intercom system to ask Lubitz to open the cockpit door, but received no answer. The pilot started knocking and can then be heard trying to break the door down. The plane crashed less than a minute later, killing all 150 people on board.