Lanarkshire woman's fundraiser for family caught up in Turkish earthquake

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A Lanarkshire woman has set up an online fundraiser to help towards continuing cancer treatment for her two-year-old niece whose family had to “run for their lives” from the devastating earthquake in Turkey.Little Medina Salha spent a week in hospital with an infection after she and her parents and two siblings had to flee their apartment home in Antakya amid the disaster and had to leave her vital medication behind.

Now her aunt Ashley Salha, of Cumbernauld, has set up a donations page to help her family and to resume the toddler’s treatment for neuroblastoma – and says she has been “completely overwhelmed by folk’s generosity” as it nears its £1000 target.

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She said: “They started to feel shaking and within seconds everything started crumbling around them. They basically had to run for their lives.“Their apartment is on the second floor but the whole place fell through – Gokhan and Semra grabbed the kids and managed to get them out to the balcony; it was a good few feet up at least and they had to jump for it.”She added: “We got woken up at 5am to the