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Magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Turkey and Syria
The death toll continues to rise after one of the biggest earthquakes in the area in almost a century.
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A man carries the body of an earthquake victim in the Besnia village near the Turkish border, Idlib province, Syria.Credit:Ghaith Alsayed/AP
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People walk next to a mosque destroyed by an earthquake in Malatya, Turkey.Credit:DIA images via AP
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Civil defence workers and residents search the rubble of collapsed buildings in the town of Harem near the Turkish border, Idlib province, Syria.Credit:Ghaith Alsayed/AP
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People carry a man injured in an earthquake into the al-Rahma Hospital in Darkush, in Syria's north.Credit:Ghaith Alsayed
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People rescue somebody on a stretcher from a collapsed building in Adana, Turkey.Credit:IHA agency via AP
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Civil defence workers and security forces search through the wreckage of collapsed buildings in Hama, Syria.Credit:Omar Sanadiki/AP
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People and rescue teams try to reach trapped residents inside collapsed buildings in Diyarbakir, in south-east Turkey.Credit:AP
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Rescue workers and medical teams try to reach trapped residents in a collapsed building in Diyarbakir, in south-east Turkey.Credit:Mahmut Bozarsan/AP
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Rescue workers try to reach trapped residents in a collapsed building in Kahta, in Turkey's Adiyaman province.Credit:AP
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Damaged vehicles sit parked in front of a collapsed building after an earthquake in Diyarbakir. Credit:AP
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Emergency team members carry the body of a person found in the rubble of a destroyed building in Adana, Turkey.Credit:Khalil Hamra/AP Photo
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People search a collapsed building at Azmarin, in northern Syria, after Monday's 7.8 magnitude quake.Credit:Ghaith Alsayed
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Women cry as they watch emergency teams search for people in the rubble of a destroyed building in Adana, Turkey.Credit:Khalil Hamra/AP
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A man searches collapsed buildings in Diyarbakir in south-east Turkey.Credit:Depo Photos via AP
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A destroyed building in Diyarbakir, in south-east Turkey.Credit:Anadolu Agency
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A man reacts as Syrian Civil Defence workers and security forces search through the wreckage of collapsed buildings, in Aleppo, Syria.Credit:Omar Sanadiki/AP
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Rescue workers attend the scene of a collapsed building in Iskenderun, Turkey.Credit:Burak Kara/Getty
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Civil defence workers and residents search collapsed buildings in Harem near the Turkish border, Idlib province, Syria.Credit:Ghaith Alsayed/AP
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Men try to identify the bodies of earthquake victims recovered outside a hospital, in Aleppo, Syria.Credit:Omar Sanadiki/AP
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Syrian civil defence workers and security forces search through the wreckage of collapsed buildings, in Aleppo, Syria.Credit:Omar Sanadiki/AP