Scenes of grief, destruction after devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria
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More than 2,600 people are known to have died in Turkey and northern Syria on Monday after powerful earthquakes and aftershocks struck the region. The toll is expected to rise on both sides of the border.
Image: 7.4 magnitude earthquake jolts Turkiye's Kahramanmaras province (Omer Yasin Ergin / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Image: Kahramanmaras earthquake felt strongly in Syria (Muhammed Said / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Image: 7.4 magnitude earthquake jolts Turkiye's Kahramanmaras province (Firat Ozdemir / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
A woman reacts as rescuers search for survivors through the rubble in Adana, Turkey, on Feb. 6, 2023. (Can Erok / AFP - Getty Images)
A collapsed building in Azmarin, near the Turkish border in the Syria's rebel-held northwestern Idlib province, early on Feb. 6, 2023. (Omar Haj Kadour / AFP - Getty Images)
A member of the Syrian civil defense, known as the
Rescuers search for surivors in Sarmada in Syria's Idlib province. (Muhammad Haj Kadour / AFP - Getty Images)
Syria has been ravaged by nearly 12 years of civil war, and the country's northwest is divided between government-held territory and the last opposition-held enclave centered in Idlib province.
A young girl awaits treatment at a hospital in the border town of Azaz in the rebel-held north of Syria's Aleppo province. (Nayef Al-Aboud / AFP - Getty Images)
Syrian rescue teams search for survivors in Aleppo on Feb. 6, 2023. (Louai Beshara / AFP - Getty Images)
Residents retrieve a child from the rubble in Jandaris in a rebel-held area of Syria's Aleppo province. (Rami Al Sayed / AFP - Getty Images)
Patients in al-Rahma hospital in Darkush in Syria's Idlib province. (Omar Haj Kadour / AFP - Getty Images)
Collapsed buildings in Hama, Syria. (Omar Sanadik / AP)
A man carries the body of his son in Jandaris in the rebel-held area of Syria's Aleppo province. (Bakr Alkasem / AFP - Getty Images)
Women watch the rescue efforts in Adana, Turkey. (Khalil Hamra / AP)
A collapsed building in Jandaris in the rebel-held area of Syria's Aleppo province. (Rami Al Sayed / AFP - Getty Images)
Residents retrieve an injured man from the rubble in Jandaris, Syria. (Rami Al Sayed / AFP - Getty Images)
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