Photos: Magnitude 7.8 earthquake devastates Turkey and Syria
More than 3,400 people have been killed and tens of thousands left homeless in Turkey and Syria on the frigid night after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that caused significant damage in southeastern Turkey and Syria early Monday.
The destructive quake was followed by a swarm of aftershocks, one of which was nearly as strong as the original magnitude 7.5 quake about 60 miles away.
The number of dead and injured is expected to rise as rescue workers in both countries are still searching for survivors in collapsed buildings. Many more deaths are feared in Syria in a region that has been ravaged by civil war and refugee crisis for more than a decade, and where many war refugees live in buildings already destroyed by previous bombings.
A man walks among rubble Monday as he searches for people inside a destroyed building in Adana, Turkey.
(Khalil Hamra/Associated Press)
Women weep as they watch emergency teams search for people in the rubble of a destroyed building in Adana, Turkey.
(Khalil Hamra/Associated Press)
People injured in a morning earthquake are treated Monday at Al-Rahma hospital in Darkush, Syria, on the outskirts of rebel-held northwestern Idlib province.
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Civil defense workers and residents search the rubble of collapsed buildings in Harem, Syria, on Monday. Damage was reported from several Turkish provinces and rescue teams were dispatched from across the country.
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A man walks among damaged buildings while carrying a small child in Besnia in Syria’s Idlib province on Monday.
(Ghaith Alsayed/Associated Press)
People and emergency teams carry a person on a stretcher after their rescue from a collapsed building Monday in Adana, Turkey.
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A woman reacts as rescue workers search for survivors in the rubble of collapsed buildings in Adana, Turkey on Monday after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the country in the southeast.
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A man searches for people in a destroyed building in Adana, Turkey, on Monday.
(Khalil Hamra/Associated Press)
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