Rescuers are racing to find survivors in the rubble of thousands of buildings brought down by earthquake in eastern Turkey and neighbouring Syria. The discovery of more bodies has brought the death toll to more than 5,000.
The Associated PressPeople walk past the scene of a collapsed building on Tuesday in Iskenderun, Turkey.Turkey declares state of emergency for at least 3 months.An aid worker with Doctors Without Borders was killed in Syria's Idlib province.Countries around the world dispatched teams to assist in the rescue efforts, and Turkey's disaster management agency said more than 24,400 emergency personnel were now on the ground.
Nurgul Atay told The Associated Press she could hear her mother's voice beneath the rubble of a collapsed building in the city of Antakya, the capital of Hatay province, but that her and others' efforts to get into the ruins had been futile without any rescue crews and heavy equipment to help. Across Turkey's Hatay province, just southwest of the earthquake's epicentre, officials say as many as 1,500 buildings were destroyed and many people reported relatives being trapped under the rubble with no aid or rescue teams arriving. In areas where teams worked, occasional cheers broke out through the night as survivors were brought out of the rubble.
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