25 Oct 2011 15:21 Source: Reuters // Reuters
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Death toll jumps to 432, many missing in Kurdish region
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2-week-old girl plucked from arms of mother in rubble
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Turkish authorities criticised over tent shortage (Adds death toll)
By Jonathon Burch and Humeyra Pamuk
ERCIS, Turkey, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Rescuers pulled a two-week-old baby girl alive from the wreckage of a collapsed apartment block on Tuesday as they battled to find survivors from a earthquake in eastern Turkey that killed at least 432 people and left thousands homeless.
The baby's mother and a grandmother were also brought out alive on stretchers to jubilant cries from onlookers who followed the dramatic rescue under cold, pouring rain.
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