Ten Thousand feared dead after mega earthquake in Turkey and Syria (Video)
First quake struck early hours on Monday as people were asleep in their homes
A second quake hit at 1:24 pm (1024 GMT), 60 miles north of first epicenter.
Contains distressing images
As many as ten thousand people are feared to have been killed after two catastrophic earthquakes devastated parts of Turkey and Syria on Monday.
With temperatures set to fall to near freezing overnight, rescuers are now in a desperate race against time to reach scores of survivors who remain trapped under collapsed buildings and who are at risk of freezing to death before help arrives.
Their conditions – and those of people left homeless by the 7.8 and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes – are set to worsen soon. Rain was falling on Monday and snowstorms that swept the country over the weekend are expected to last until Thursday.
The death toll in the unfolding humanitarian crisis has already passed 2,300 and is expected to rise ‘significantly’ as the disaster unfolds. The United States Geological Survey warned that fatalities from the quakes could reach as high as 10,000.
Victims still trapped in the wrecks of their destroyed homes pleaded for help over Facebook Live, while a journalist student in the Turkish city of Adana said he heard a survivor calling out from beneath the rubble: ‘I don’t have the strength anymore.’
Meanwhile, heartbreaking videos and pictures from dozens of cities across the two countries have shown weeping parents carrying the lifeless bodies of their children in their arms, miraculous rescues executed by emergency responders, buildings slamming to the ground in seconds, and entire neighbourhoods reduced to rubble.
Source: Daily Mail