Rescuers in Turkey and Syria dug with their bare hands through the freezing night Tuesday hunting for survivors among the rubble of thousands of buildings felled in a series of violent earthquakes.
SANLIURFA, Türkiye- A stream of cars crawled north out of the shattered city of Sanliurfa, taking traumatised residents a little further from the scene of Türkiye's most powerful earthquake in decades.
People take a rest next to a bonfire in the rubble in Hatay, after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake
There fears that there will be thousands more fatalities confirmed in the coming days, as rescuers battle to save people trapped under the rubble as temperatures plunge below freezing.
Rescuers in Turkey and Syria braved freezing darkness, aftershocks and collapsing buildings today, as they dug for survivors buried by a string of earthquakes that killed at least 4,800 people.