A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Turkey and Syria on Monday, killing dozens, leveling buildings while people were still in their sleep, and sending tremors that were felt as far away as the island of Cyprus.
Local officials in Turkey put the initial death toll at 53, although it threatened to climb substantially higher because it caught most people while they were still at home asleep.Television images showed shocked people in Turkey standing in the snow in their pyjamas, watching rescuers dig through the debris of damaged homes.
"I convey my best wishes to all our citizens who were affected by the earthquake," Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan tweeted. The earthquake levelled dozens of buildings across major cities of southern Turkey as well as neighboring Syria, a country gripped by more than a decade of violence that has killed hundreds of thousands and displaced millions of people.
CNN Turk television said the quake was also felt across parts of central Turkey and the capital Ankara.Syrian state television reported that a building near Latakia, on the west coast of Syria, had collapsed.
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