Turkish town just 70 miles from centre of earthquake is largely deserted, with those remaining sheltering around makeshift campfires

On the edge of Göksun, empty buildings with their walls ripped open showed the power of the earthquake that devastated the town just a day earlier. Icicles dangled from cracked walls, where the force of the quake had torn homes open to reveal their contents, exposing the tiles and chairs that used to be a kitchen and now were left open to the freezing air. Elsewhere, whole houses had been turned to rubble.

On Tuesday Göksun was a ghost town, just over 70 miles from the centre of the deadly earthquake that killed more than 5,000 people in Turkey and Syria and has left untold numbers trapped under the rubble.

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