welcome to bbc news. more now on the news that a massive earthquake has killed more than 500 people in turkey and syria, and i canjoin my colleague for more. welcome to all of you watching on pbs and around the globe. we are bringing you special coverage of breaking news this hour. a powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake has struck northern syria and also south eastern turkey. official figures say officialfigures say more official figures say more than 650 people have been killed, that figure will rise. the earthquake, with a magnitude of 7.8 struckjust before dawn. the epicentre was in the turkish province of gaziantep. buildings collapsed, hundreds of miles away. there were also reports of many of the casualties in northern syria, across the border. the tremor was also felt in lebanon, gaza, jordan, cyprus and iraq. turkey has declared a state of emergency. syria s government, meanwhile, has also held an emergency meeting in order to decide how they will respond. witnesses from
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the cupboard, my christmas tree fell down, some flowers fell, some glasses were broken. i told her, it is an earthquake, we must leave the house. then we got to the public street, and then i see convoys of cars of civilian people. they were in the streets randomly, in parks, in gardens. according to some sources from the kurdish administration here in north and eastern syria, no cases of killed people in east of euphrates. just four people wounded in kobani. but if you move to aleppo, six people were killed especially in sheikh maqsood neighbourhood, there and 11 wounded. according to syrian government ministry of health, 239 people were killed in aleppo,
suddenly i saw the cupboard, my christmas tree fell down, sunflowers fell, some glasses were broken. i told her, it is an earthquake, we must leave the house. we got to the public street, and then i saw convoys of cars of civilian people. they were in the streets, in parks and gardens. according to some sources from the kurdish administration, if you move to aleppo, six people were killed there also. according to syrian government