A huge earthquake has killed thousands of people across Turkey and northwest Syria, with freezing winter weather adding to the plight of the many thousands left injured or homeless and hampering efforts to find survivors. 7NEWS
The worst tremor to strike Turkey this century, it came before sunrise in harsh weather and was followed in the early afternoon by another large quake of magnitude 7.7.“It’s bitterly cold and there’s heavy rain, and people need saving.”The second quake was big enough to bring down more buildings and, like the first, was felt across the region, endangering rescuers struggling to pull casualties from the rubble.
Temperatures in some areas were expected to fall to near freezing overnight, worsening conditions for people trapped under rubble or left homeless.It is already the highest death toll from an earthquake in Turkey since 1999, when a tremor of similar magnitude devastated the heavily populated eastern Marmara Sea region near Istanbul, killing more than 17,000.
Turkish state broadcaster TRT showed a building collapse in the southern province of Adana after the second quake.Men search for people among the debris in a destroyed building in Adana.In Syria, already wrecked by more than 11 years of war, the health ministry said 538 people had been killed and more than 1326 injured.The Norwegian Refugee Council said the earthquake would only add to the suffering of millions of Syrians already enduring a humanitarian crisis due to the conflict.
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