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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Emily Atkinson

Man travels 2,000 miles from Wales to find family buried in Turkey earthquake rubble

REUTERS

A man who travelled more than 2,000 miles to reach his childhood home in disaster-struck Turkey arrived to find his family still buried under the rubble.

Ahmat Yilmaz journeyed through the night from south Wales to the mountaintop village of Tut, in Turkey’s Adiyaman province, after hearing his brother Ali had died in a deadly earthquake.

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