Turkey and Syria earthquake: race to find survivors as death toll passes 7,900 and hundreds of thousands seek shelter.
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The baby is now in a stable condition after arriving at a hospital on Monday with bruises, lacerations and hypothermia
A newborn girl has been saved by rescuers from beneath the rubble of a building in north-west Syria that was destroyed by an earthquake on Monday.
Her mother went into labour soon after the disaster and gave birth before she died, a relative said. Her father, four siblings and an aunt were also killed.
Dramatic footage showed a man carrying the baby, covered in dust, after she was pulled from debris in Jindayris.
A doctor at a hospital in nearby Afrin said she was now in a stable condition. The building in which her family lived was one of about 50 reportedly destroyed by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Jindayris, an opposition-held town in Idlib province that is close to the Turkish border.
The baby's uncle, Khalil al-Suwadi, said relatives had rushed to the scene when they learned of the collapse.
With more than 7,800 deaths, thousands still trapped, and scores of people homeless, the people in southeastern Turkey and northern Syria need our help. Your gift will bring emergency water, food, shelter, and medical care to those affected by the earthquake. On Monday, an earthquake of magnitude 7.8 centered in the Pazarcik district jolted Kahramanmaras and hit several provinces, including Gaziantep, Sanliurfa, Diyarbakir, Adana, Adiyaman, Malatya, Osmaniye, Hatay, and Kilis. Later in the day, an earthquake of 7.6 magnitude centred in Kahramanmaras's Elbistan district jolted the region. The earthquake was also felt in several neighbouring countries, including Lebanon and Syria. The third earthquake of magnitude 6.0 on the Richter scale hit Goksun, Turkey. The United Nations said the first quake of magnitude 7.8 that had hit the southern Turkey early Monday was the county's most powerful quake in more than 80 years.
The earthquake collapsed more than 400 buildings and severely damaged at least 1,300 more, according to the syriya civil defence.
Meanwhile, the Turkish president on Tuesday declared a ‘state of emergency ’ in 10 worst-hit provinces for the next 3 months.
At 7.8 magnitude, this is the strongest earthquake in Turkey since 1939.
Fewer than five of this magnitude occur each year, according to the USGS. Thousands of buildings have collapsed and those that still stand cannot be entered. Search and rescue teams, and ordinary citizens, are busy looking for people trapped inside and under rubble.
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