Thousands injured as rescue teams search for survivors
A Turkish broadcaster showed rescue workers in Osmaniye province using a blanket to carry an injured man out of a collapsed four-storey building and putting him in an ambulance. He was the fifth to be pulled from the rubble, it said.Mr Erdogan spoke by phone with the governors of eight affected provinces to gather information on the situation and rescue efforts, his office said in a statement.
“Wounded people are still arriving in waves,” Aleppo’s health director, Ziad Hage Taha, told Reuters. People in Damascus, and in the Lebanese cities of Beirut and Tripoli, ran into the street and took to their cars to get away from their buildings in case they collapsed, witnesses said. The US Geological Survey said the magnitude 7.8 quake struck at a depth of 17.9km. It reported a series of earthquakes, one of 6.7 magnitude.People search for survivors in Diyarbakir, Turkey. Photograph: Ilyas Akengin/AFP via Getty Images
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