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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
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
Rescue workers in the South African city of George are battling to save dozens of people, including many still unaccounted for, after a residential building collapsed killing at least six. The five-storey apartment block caved in on Monday (May 6) afternoon while under construction, municipal authorities from the coastal city said. IMAGES
Palestinians search through the rubble following an Israeli strike on Deir El-Balah in the centre of the Gaza Strip. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Tuesday to launch a ground offensive on the Gaza Strip's far-southern city of Rafah "with or without" a truce deal being agreed with Hamas. IMAGES
Members of a rescue team search for survivors in a damaged building in Hualien. At least seven people were killed and more than 700 injured Wednesday by a powerful earthquake in Taiwan that damaged dozens of buildings and prompted tsunami warnings that extended to Japan and the Philippines before being lifted. IMAGES
Rescuers work at an apartment block following a collapse, in Havana that left one dead, a firefighter, and two missing. Due to a lack of maintenance, buildings regularly collapse in certain old districts of the Cuban capital. These collapses are more frequent during the rainy and hurricane seasons, from June to November. IMAGES