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Added on the 17/04/2016 06:45:34 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Residents and rescuers search for earthquake victims and survivors in the rubble of collapsed buildings in the village of Besnaya in Syria's rebel-held northwestern Idlib province on the border with Turkey. 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
Rescuers from the Ukrainian emergency services set up a "tent city" in the city of Antakya, Turkey, to begin search and rescue operations after the deadly earthquake that claimed thousands of victims in the region. The images were filmed on February 8. 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
Rescue workers search for survivors under the rubble of collapsed buildings in the village of Besnaya in Idlib province along Syria's northwestern border with Turkey. At least 783 people were killed Monday across Syria following a 7.8-magnitude earthquake that had its epicentre in southwestern Turkey, the government and rescuers said. IMAGES