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Praise Jesus! God strikes down dead at least 17 towelheads! These kids were apparently attending Koran Lessons.... well now they'll be attending Burning Lessons - in Hell! Praise! More proof that Islam is nothing more than a false-Religion of hate, and our God will not tolerate their evil!
He'll wipe these vile Islamists off the face of this Earth! Glory! Glory to God!
He'll wipe these vile Islamists off the face of this Earth! Glory! Glory to God!
At least 17 schoolgirls have been killed by a gas explosion which caused their three-storey dormitory to collapse.
Rescue workers are still searching for survivors under the rubble in the village of Balcilar, central Turkey.
The workers had initially called off the operation after they pulled out two survivors and were convinced no one else was trapped, Mayor Mehmet Demirgul said.
But a military rescue team resumed its search after a family living in the area reported to police that their daughter, who had stayed the night at the dormitory, was still missing.
The children had been attending Koran courses during the school summer break at a religious boarding school.
It is thought the building was levelled when a large gas cannister exploded.
At least 25 students were brought out of the debris with injuries, said Galip Sef, an official with the local emergency services.
Three of the youngsters sustained severe burns, he said.
An estimated 40 girls, between the ages of eight and 16, had been staying at the dormitory.
Survivor Merve Avci, 13, said: "We got up early for prayers and I went down to have a wash.
"A strong whistling sound came up from the ground floor. I went into the kitchen with two teachers and one of them said: 'A gas pipe has broken.'"
Merve said she went back upstairs "and five minutes later a strong gas smell took over the dormitories followed by the deafening explosion".
"We felt the flames rise up around us," she added.
The explosion occurred around 4.15am local time when most of the students were asleep.
Television footage showed local people, some using their bare hands, trying to remove the rubble from a partly flattened, concrete building.
Osman Aydin, the governor for Konya province, said emergency teams had been dispatched from the capital Ankara to assist the rescue efforts.
Rescue workers are still searching for survivors under the rubble in the village of Balcilar, central Turkey.
The workers had initially called off the operation after they pulled out two survivors and were convinced no one else was trapped, Mayor Mehmet Demirgul said.
But a military rescue team resumed its search after a family living in the area reported to police that their daughter, who had stayed the night at the dormitory, was still missing.
The children had been attending Koran courses during the school summer break at a religious boarding school.
It is thought the building was levelled when a large gas cannister exploded.
At least 25 students were brought out of the debris with injuries, said Galip Sef, an official with the local emergency services.
Three of the youngsters sustained severe burns, he said.
An estimated 40 girls, between the ages of eight and 16, had been staying at the dormitory.
Survivor Merve Avci, 13, said: "We got up early for prayers and I went down to have a wash.
"A strong whistling sound came up from the ground floor. I went into the kitchen with two teachers and one of them said: 'A gas pipe has broken.'"
Merve said she went back upstairs "and five minutes later a strong gas smell took over the dormitories followed by the deafening explosion".
"We felt the flames rise up around us," she added.
The explosion occurred around 4.15am local time when most of the students were asleep.
Television footage showed local people, some using their bare hands, trying to remove the rubble from a partly flattened, concrete building.
Osman Aydin, the governor for Konya province, said emergency teams had been dispatched from the capital Ankara to assist the rescue efforts.
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