Photos from the quake zone show flattened buildings and heartbreaking loss.
More than 2,600 people are known to have died in Turkey and northern Syria on Monday after powerful earthquakes and aftershocks struck the region. The toll is expected to rise on both sides of the border.
A destroyed building in Diyarbakir, Turkey.Omer Yasin Ergin / Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesA child rescued from the rubble is treated in a hospital in Idlib. Muhammed Said / Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesA damaged building leans dangerously in Kahramanmaras, Turkey.Firat Ozdemir / Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesRescuers carry a body found in the rubble in Adana, Turkey.Can Erok / AFP – Getty Images
Dozens of quakes hit the region over 24 hours, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, including four at magnitude 6 or stronger.
A woman reacts as rescuers search for survivors through the rubble in Adana. Can Erok / AFP – Getty ImagesA car sits crushed under a collapsed building in Azmarin, near the Turkish border in rebel-held Idlib, Syria. Omar Haj Kadour / AFP – Getty ImagesA member of Syria Civil Defence, a volunteer rescue force widely known as the White Helmets, carries a child from the rubble in Zardana in Idlib.Abdulaziz Keta / AFP – Getty ImagesRescuers search for survivors in Sarmada in Idlib province. Muhammad Haj Kadour / AFP – Getty Images
Syria has been ravaged by nearly 12 years of civil war and the country’s northwest is divided between government-held territory, and the last opposition-held enclave centered in Idlib province.
A young girl awaits treatment at a hospital in the border town of Azaz in the rebel-held north of Syria’s Aleppo province. Nayef Al-Aboud / AFP – Getty ImagesSyrian rescue teams search for survivors in Aleppo.Louai Beshara / AFP – Getty ImagesResidents retrieve a child from the rubble in Jandaris in a rebel-held area of Syria’s Aleppo province.Rami Al Sayed / AFP – Getty ImagesPatients in al-Rahma hospital in Darkush in Idlib. Omar Haj Kadour / AFP – Getty ImagesCollapsed buildings in Hama, Syria. Omar Sanadik / APA man carries the body of his son in Jandaris in Aleppo.Bakr Alkasem / AFP – Getty ImagesWomen watch the rescue efforts in Adana, Turkey. Khalil Hamra / APA collapsed building in Jandaris in the rebel-held area of Syria’s Aleppo province. Rami Al Sayed / AFP – Getty Images