Dozens of countries offer help as rescue workers and residents frantically search for survivors after devastating 7.8-magnitude tremor
International rescue missions were rushing toand Syria on Monday after one of the most powerful earthquakes to hit the region in at least a century left more than 3,800 people dead, thousands injured and an unknown number trapped in the rubble.
Pledges of emergency assistance to both countries have poured in from across the globe, with calls for Damascus, the last rebel-held enclave and one of the areas worst hit by the shaking. By the early evening, the death toll in Turkey stood at 2,379, the the country’s emergency services said, and more than 14,483 people were recorded as injured. Yunus Sezer, who heads Turkey’s disaster relief agency AFAD, said nearly 15,000 search and rescue personnel had been deployed to the region.Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
The toll of 3,823 was expected to rise as rescue workers and residents searched frantically for survivors under the rubble of crushed buildings in cities on both sides of the border.
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