Devastating earthquakes in Turkey, Syria leave over 4,000 dead | In Pics
A massive earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 ripped through Turkey and Syria early on Monday, decimating entire apartment blocks, hospitals and leaving thousands of people injured or homeless. This was followed by two more temblors of magnitudes 7.6 and 6.0 in Turkey. As of Tuesday morning, the three quakes combined have left over 4,000 people dead. Tremors from Monday's earthquake and its aftershocks have been recorded across the region, including in Lebanon, Israel, Iraq and Jordan.
Civil defense workers and security forces carry an earthquake victim as they search through the wreckage of collapsed buildings in Hama, Syria on Monday. Prisoners mutinied in a northwestern Syria prison on Monday following a deadly earthquake, with at least 20 escaping the jail. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadik)
Syrian civil defense members search for people under the rubble of a destroyed building in Afrin, Syria on Monday. The new count on Tuesday morning brought the confirmed death toll in Turkey and neighbouring Syria to 4,365, after an earthquake considered to be the strongest to hit the region in nearly a century. (Zana Halil/DIA images via AP)
Civil defense workers and security forces search through the wreckage of collapsed buildings in Hama, Syria on Monday. A powerful earthquake has caused significant damage in southeast Turkey and Syria and many casualties are feared. Damage was reported across several Turkish provinces, and rescue teams were being sent from around the country. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadik)
People and emergency teams rescue a person on a stretcher from a collapsed building in Adana, Turkey on Monday. Russian President Vladimir Putin told Syrian President Bashar Assad in a phone call that Moscow will deliver urgent aid and send rescue workers to assist the earthquake-hit country. (IHA agency via AP)
A child looks out through a window of a car, following an earthquake, in rebel-held town of Jandaris, Syria, on Monday. The Turkish flag will be hoisted at half-mast until sunset on February 12, in all our country and foreign representations, reported Turkey's Anadolu news agency citing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. (REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi)
