ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s state-run television says a group of inmates have escaped from a prison in Turkey’s quake-hit region.
State-run TRT television said the inmates fled after a powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Turkey on Sunday, killing at least 85 people and sparking widespread panic as it collapsed dozens of buildings into piles of twisted steel and chunks of concrete.
The report gave no other detail including the number of inmates who fled.
The quake hit Turkey’s mountainous eastern region with an epicenter in the village of Tabanli, 10 miles from Van, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.