Scenes of devastation as Turkey, Syria quake kills thousands

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A woman sits on the rubble as emergency rescue teams search for people under the remains of destroyed buildings in Nurdagi town on the outskirts of Osmaniye city southern Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 7.

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Emergency rescue members search for people in a destroyed building in Adana, Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 7.

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Emergency teams search for people in the rubble of a destroyed building in Adana, southern Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 7.

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An emergency rescue team member is comforted by teammates after they found two bodies of people in a destroyed building in Adana, Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 7.

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Emergency team members carry a body of a person found in the rubble of a destroyed building in Adana, Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 7.

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Emergency team members search for people in a destroyed building in Adana, Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 7.

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Aerial photo shows the destruction in Hatay city center, southern Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 7.

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Rescue workers and medics carry a woman out of the debris of a collapsed building in Elbistan, Kahramanmaras, in southern Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 7.

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Emergency workers and medics rescue a woman out of the debris of a collapsed building in Elbistan, Kahramanmaras, in southern Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 7. Rescuers raced Tuesday to find survivors in the rubble of thousands of buildings brought down by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake and multiple aftershocks that struck eastern Turkey and neighboring Syria.

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Rescue teams evacuate a survivor from the rubble of a destroyed building in Kahramanmaras, southern Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 7.

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Relatives weep over the dead body of Goktug, a baby boy, in Elbistan, southern Turkey, late Tuesday, Feb. 7.

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Firefighters carry a dead body from a destroyed building, in Gaziantep, southeastern Turkey, Wednesday, Feb. 8. Thinly stretched rescue teams worked through the night into Wednesday, pulling more bodies from the rubble of thousands of buildings downed in Turkey and Syria by a catastrophic earthquake.

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Turkish army commandos rescue Kübra, a ten-year-old girl, from under the rubble in Hatay, southern Turkey, Wednesday, Feb. 8.