More than 5,600 buildings in Turkey have been destroyed by yesterday's powerful earthquake and aftershocks - as the long-running civil war in Syria complicates rescue efforts there
A mound of concrete and steel roads lay where a multi-storey building once stood in Aleppo, with a thin young man expressing fears that 12 families could be trapped.Flattened streets at earthquake's epicentre
The Syrian White Helmets, a rescue service in rebel-held territory, said they were in a"race against time" to save the lives of all those under rubble. Imran Bahur's apartment building in the Turkish city of Adana was also destroyed. She said her 18-month-old grandson was on the 12th floor, and begged for help in rescuing him.
Search crews working in Diyarbakir, another Turkish city, occasionally raised their hands and called for quiet - listening for signs of life.
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