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Rescue workers are searching eight buildings in Bayrakli, a metropolitan distric of Izmir, despite dwindling hope for survivors, as the death toll of a powerful magnitude earthquake which hit western Turkey rose to 49. IMAGES
Rescue teams search for victims under the rubble in devastated Talat N'Yaaqoub village in the Atlas mountains. The earthquake killed at least 2,122 people, injured more than 2,400 others, and flattened entire villages. 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
Images supplied by Spain's Military Emergencies Unit show members of the Spanish rescue team searching the rubble in the earthquake-stricken village of Imi N'Talat, to the southwest of Marrakesh. Spanish rescue workers are among the foreign teams helping in the aftermath of Friday's 6.8-magnitude quake, which struck the Atlas mountains. The disaster has so far killed at least 2,681 people and left another 2,500 injured. IMAGES
Firemen and rescue teams search for missing people Cesena after heavy rains caused devastation across Italy's northern Emilia Romagna region, killing at least five people. IMAGES
Rescuers and volunteers work in large numbers to clear the rubble of a collapsed building in Diyarbakir, Turkey. The death toll from a catastrophic earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria has reached to 33,000, with the United Nations warning that the final number may double. IMAGES