Footage was captured of a building in southeastern Turkey collapsing after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake.
This is the catastrophic moment a building in southeastern Turkey collapsed after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake.
Footage posted on Twitter shows what appears to be a five-storey block of flats in the city of Şanlıurfa crumble to the ground, also knocking out a utility pole. It is still unclear if anyone was in the building at the time, but many residents have already fled their homes in cities across the southeast out of fear of aftershocks.
Other videos on social media also show similar scenes across Diyarbakir, Adana and Gaziantep regions in the country.Rescue workers and residents in multiple cities are searching for survivors, digging through tangles of metal and giant piles of concrete.Vice president Fuat Otkay placed the total number of collapsed buildings at 1,718.
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