BREAKING UPDATE: Massive new 7.6-magnitude earthquake rocks southeastern Turkey and Syria as death toll rises to more than 1,300 from an earlier quake.
, killing more than 1,300 people in the country and neighboring Syria with scores more trapped in the rubble as another huge temblor hit the region.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the death toll had reached at least 912 people in his country alone, with 5,383 more wounded. At least 248 people were killed in government-controlled areas and 700 were injured, according to the country’s health ministry. In opposition-held areas, members of the opposition emergency organization known as the White Helmets said the earthquake had killed at least 221 people and injured hundreds more.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the first quake was centered about 20 miles from Gaziantep, Turkey, a major city and provincial capital, when it struck at 4:17 a.m. local time. Another Syrian man was pictured carrying the body of a dead girl still wearing her striped pink and green socks, who was killed in the earthquake in Azmarin, another town in the Idlib province.
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