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"Where is my mum?" A girl asks rescuers, after being pulled alive from the rubble caused by a devastating Turkey quake on Monday night. Turkey's southeastern city of Hatay lying on the border with Syria is among the cities struck hardest by a major earthquake that killed more than 3,800 and flattened countless buildings. IMAGES
In Antakya, Turkey, a survivor is pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building by a group of rescue workers, on the 8th day after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the region. The toll from the Turkey-Syria has risen above 35,000, as rescue teams have started to wind down the search for survivors. IMAGES
A family identifies a body retrieved from the rubble by rescue workers in Antakya, Turkey, then walk away from it, visibly emotional. The death toll from the powerful earthquake ten days ago in Turkey and Syria is now over 40,000, according to the latest estimates. IMAGES
As the clean-up operation continues, rescuers comfort a dog found still alive after having been trapped under the rubble, a week after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck southeastern Turkey and neighbouring Syria. The disaster has left more than 35,000 dead and millions in dire need of aid. IMAGES
French and Turkish rescuers, searching through the rubble in the town of Osmaniye, southern Turkey, discover a body, before bringing it to an ambulance as a crowd waits anxiously near the ruins of a building in which seven people have been found dead, according to an official report given to AFP at 22:25 local time. Search operations like this are ongoing across southern Turkey and northern parts of neighbouring Syria after Monday's 7.8-magnitude earthquake, of which the death toll has reached over 12,000. IMAGES
Rescue workers search for survivors under the rubble of collapsed buildings in the village of Besnaya in Idlib province along Syria's northwestern border with Turkey. At least 783 people were killed Monday across Syria following a 7.8-magnitude earthquake that had its epicentre in southwestern Turkey, the government and rescuers said. IMAGES