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Emergency services clear rubble at the site of an Israeli strike on Damascus that killed the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' spy chief for Syria and three other Guards members on Saturday, Iranian media said, in an attack that flattened a multi-storey residential building. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said six people were killed in the Israeli strike in the Mazzeh neighbourhood of the Syrian capital. IMAGES
A family identifies a body retrieved from the rubble by rescue workers in Antakya, Turkey, then walk away from it, visibly emotional. The death toll from the powerful earthquake ten days ago in Turkey and Syria is now over 40,000, according to the latest estimates. IMAGES
In Antakya, Turkey, a survivor is pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building by a group of rescue workers, on the 8th day after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the region. The toll from the Turkey-Syria has risen above 35,000, as rescue teams have started to wind down the search for survivors. IMAGES
Excavators dig through rubble in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, a week after a devastating earthquake hit the country and neighbouring Syria. Rescuers pulled more survivors from the rubble a week after an earthquake struck Turkey and Syria leaving more than 33,000 dead, as the UN warned the toll was set to rise far higher. IMAGES
French and Turkish rescuers, searching through the rubble in the town of Osmaniye, southern Turkey, discover a body, before bringing it to an ambulance as a crowd waits anxiously near the ruins of a building in which seven people have been found dead, according to an official report given to AFP at 22:25 local time. Search operations like this are ongoing across southern Turkey and northern parts of neighbouring Syria after Monday's 7.8-magnitude earthquake, of which the death toll has reached over 12,000. IMAGES
"Where is my mum?" A girl asks rescuers, after being pulled alive from the rubble caused by a devastating Turkey quake on Monday night. Turkey's southeastern city of Hatay lying on the border with Syria is among the cities struck hardest by a major earthquake that killed more than 3,800 and flattened countless buildings. IMAGES
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