Parts of Turkey and Syria have been devastated by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake which has so far claimed more than 5,000 lives in total.
In the early hours of Monday (February 6), the earthquake struck close to the border between southern Turkey and northern Syria. In Turkey, the initial quake, which was centred in the southeastern province of Kahramanmaras, caused severe infrastructural damage to the historic city of Gaziantep.
The provincial capital is located just 20 miles from the epicentre and saw the destruction of a historically significant building. Meanwhile, the province's port of Iskenderun saw a hospital collapse from the earthquake, forcing a navy ship to arrive and transport survivors in need of medical care to the nearby city of Mersin.
