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Added on the 10/02/2023 16:07:39 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Rescue workers search rubble for survivors in the Turkish city of Diyarbakir after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Turkey and Syria. The quake killed hundreds of people as they slept, levelled buildings, and sent tremors that were felt as far away as the island of Cyprus and Egypt. IMAGES
Rescuers and volunteers work in large numbers to clear the rubble of a collapsed building in Diyarbakir, Turkey. The death toll from a catastrophic earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria has reached to 33,000, with the United Nations warning that the final number may double. 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
The search for survivors continues in Diyarbakır, a town in southeast of Turkey, the day after a powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit the country and neighbouring Syria, with the death toll rising to over 7,300. IMAGES
Rescue workers are searching eight buildings in Bayrakli, a metropolitan distric of Izmir, despite dwindling hope for survivors, as the death toll of a powerful magnitude earthquake which hit western Turkey rose to 49. IMAGES
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