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Rescuers search for survivors beneath the rubble of collapsed buildings in the village of Azmarin in Syria's Iddlib province. At least 50 people have been killed across Syria as buildings collapsed after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake with its epicentre in southeastern Turkey, state media and a local hospital say. IMAGES
A Russian rocket strike destroyed a five-storey apartment block in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, killing at least three people and leaving other residents trapped under rubble, the regional governor and emergencies service said on Thursday.
Rescuers dig through the rubble of a building after a strike hit the eastern Ukrainian town of Chasiv Yar. At least six people were killed and five others injured in the Russian strike on an apartment building the regional governor said. IMAGES
Torrential rains and flooding in Rwanda have killed at least 129 people this week...with reports the toll could rise still further. A search and rescue operation is underway. The extreme weather began last week, when heavy rains triggered mudslides that washed away homes and left some roads inacessible. The Rwanda Weather Agency has warned that more rain is coming. FRANCE 24's Charli James tells us more.
Images released by the National Police of Ukraine in Kharkiv region show policemen and rescuers pulling a victim out of the rubble after a strike in Kupiansk. No information about whether she is alive or dead was provided. "So far, we know about the dead employee of the museum and ten wounded. There are still people under the rubble," Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on Telegram after the strike occurred. IMAGES