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B.C. family loses father, more than 20 family members in Turkey earthquake

“They have suffered a tremendous loss that no family should ever have to experience.”

A GoFundMe effort has been started for a Rossland woman who lost her husband and extended family in an earthquake that devastated parts of Turkey and Syria on Feb. 6.

Cheryl Forest’s husband, Midrap, and 24 members of her extended family have died in the quake. All were at an engagement party in an apartment building that collapsed in Adiyaman, Turkey.

“They

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Jim Bailey

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