Heartbreaking images captured Mesut Hancer holding the hand of his 15 year old daughter, who was crushed to death during the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.
Rescue efforts stretched into the night
It was the most powerful quake recorded in Turkey since 1939, when one killed 30,000 people, Stephen Hicks, a seismology researcher at Imperial College London, tweeted. But rescue efforts will be muddied by days of snow and temperatures below zero ahead, according to Turkish weather agencies. As rescuers fan out, thousands of people in Turkey and Syria have been sleeping in cars or outside, wary of aftershocks wreaking more havoc.
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