More than 17,000 people were killed and hundreds of buildings damaged or destroyed in both Turkiye and Syria when they were struck by a powerful 7.8-magnitude quake early on Monday. The death toll is likely to rise as rescuers continue to search for missing people in the debris.Check out Sputnik's photo gallery to see how people in the affected areas are coping with the hardships which were brought on them by this devastating quake.
Turkiye and Syria were recently hit by the most devastating earthquake in a decade. It was followed by 78 aftershocks and a second earthquake.
More than 17,000 people were killed and hundreds of buildings damaged or destroyed in both Turkiye and Syria when they were struck by a powerful 7.8-magnitude quake early on Monday. The death toll is likely to rise as rescuers continue to search for missing people in the debris.
Check out Sputnik's photo gallery to see how people in the affected areas are coping with the hardships which were brought on them by this devastating quake.
People sit near a bonfire amidst the rubble of collapsed buildings in Kahramanmaras after a 7,8-magnitude earthquake struck southeast Turkiye. Searchers were still pulling survivors on February 8 from the rubble of the earthquake that killed over 15,000 people in Turkey and Syria, even as the window for rescues narrowed.
Rescue teams search for people at a destroyed building, in Adiyaman, southeastern Turkiye. With hopes of finding survivors fading, stretched rescue teams in Turkey and Syria searched Wednesday for signs of life in the rubble of thousands of buildings toppled by the world's deadliest earthquake in more than a decade.
Rescuers work at the rubble of a collapsed building in the town of Jandairis, as search and rescue operations continue following a tremendous earthquake.
For two days and nights since the 7.8 magnitude quake, thousands of searchers have worked in freezing temperatures to find those still alive under flattened buildings on either side of the border.
Survivors try to warm up near a bonfire in Antakya, southern Turkiye.
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