A major earthquake killed dozens and injured hundreds Syria early on Monday, a senior health official said, as homes and historic buildings in north and west came crashing down.
State television showed footage of rescue teams in heavy rain and sleet searching for survivors. Health officials advised people to stay outside and were asking the public to help take injured people to emergency rooms.
"All public and private hospitals are on alert. Wounded people are still arriving in waves," Aleppo's health director, Ziad Hage Taha, told Reuters by telephone. The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese in Aleppo posted photographs of blocks of stone that had crashed down onto its mezzanine. In a part of the Aleppo countryside controlled by rebel groups, members of the Syrian civil defence known as the White Helmets could be seen carrying a bloodied, wailing baby out of a collapsed building.
Another group carried a body wrapped in a white sheet as a crane pulled away slabs of concrete in the town of Azaz, a Reuters witness said.In an online statement, the White Helmets declared a state of emergency in the opposition-held northwest where they operate, saying stormy weather was compounding the problem.
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