Search and rescue enter day two as quake kills more than 4,300 in Turkey, Syria
More than 4,300 people have died after the most powerful earthquake ripped through Turkey and Syria leaving destruction and debris on each side of the border.
Rescue operations still continue as rescuers race to pull survivors from underneath the rubble.
They used heavy equipment and their bare hands to peel back rubble in search of survivors.
According to Turkey’s head of disaster services Yunus Sezer, at least 2,921 countrymen were killed and more than 15,800 others injured.
In Syria, at least 1,451 people have died with 711 people dead across government-controlled areas mostly in Aleppo, Hama, Latakia and Tartus.
Syria Civil Defense, reported 740 deaths in opposition-controlled areas.
Much of northwestern Syria, which borders Turkey, is controlled by anti-government forces amid a bloody civil war that began in 2011.
Denmark’s geological institute said tremors from the main quake reached the East Coast of Green land about eight minutes after the tremor struck Turkey.
The last 7.8 magnitude quake to hit Turkey occurred in 1939 when 33,000 died in the eastern Erzincan province.
The United States, the European Union and Russia all immediately sent condolences and offers of help.
