In cities close to the quake’s epicentre, entire buildings have been reduced to rubble, while makeshift camps have been set-up by rescue crews

Thousands of people across swathes of Turkey and Syria were killed in Monday’s 7.8-magnitude earthquake and the various aftershocks that followed. Tens of thousands more were left injured and without shelter in the freezing winter weather.

More than 8,000 people have so far been pulled from the debris in Turkey, but it’s thought thousands more are still missing.

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