ISTANBUL: A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Turkey and Syria on Monday, killing dozens, levelling buildings while people were still in their sleep, and sending tremors that...
ISTANBUL: A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Turkey and Syria on Monday, killing dozens, levelling buildings while people were still in their sleep, and sending tremors that were felt as far away as the island of Cyprus.Local officials in Turkey put the initial death toll at 53, although it threatened to climb substantially higher because it caught most people while they were still at home asleep.
Images on Turkish television and social media showed rescuers digging through the rubble of levelled buildings in the city of Kahramanmaras and neighboring Gaziantep.A fire lit up the night sky in one image from Kahramanmaras, although its origin remained unclear.NTV television said buildings also crumbled in the cities of Adiyaman, Malatya and Diyarbakir.CNN Turk television said the quake was also felt across parts of central Turkey and the capital Ankara.
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