A major earthquake of magnitude 7.8 struck central Turkey and northwest Syria on Monday, killing about 300 people and injuring hundreds as buildings collapsed across the region, triggering searches for survivors in the rubble.
Footage on broadcaster CNNTurk showed the historic Gaziantep Castle was severely damaged.
Home were "totally destroyed", said the rescuer on the clip, which showed a street strewn with rubble. "Wounded people are still arriving in waves," Aleppo's health director, Ziad Hage Taha, told Reuters by telephone. 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 U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude 7.8 quake struck at a depth of 17.9 km. It reported a series of earthquakes, one of 6.7 magnitude.The tremor lasted about a minute and shattered windows, according to a Reuters witness in Diyarbakir, 350 km to the east, where a security official said at least 17 buildings collapsed.
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