Residents gather in front of the rubble of a building that collapsed, following an earthquake in the village of Azmarin, near the Turkish border in the north of Syria's rebel-held northwestern Idlib province, early on February 6, 2023.PHOTO / AFP
Summary
· Rescuers rushed to dig for survivors under the rubble of collapsed buildings in the pouring winter rain.
The
most powerful earthquake to strike Turkey and Syria in nearly a century killed
over 2,300 people on Monday, sparked frantic rescues and was felt as far away
as Greenland.
The
7.8-magnitude early morning quake, followed by dozens of aftershocks, wiped out
entire sections of major Turkish cities in a region filled with millions who
have fled Syria's civil war and other conflicts.
Rescuers
used heavy equipment and their bare hands to peel back rubble in search of
survivors, who they could in some cases hear begging for help under the debris.
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