The death toll from the earthquake in Turkey and Syria climbed to more than 4,000 as rescuers worked overnight to find more survivors. People could be heard crying out for help from within the debris as first responders contended with rain and snow.
Seismic activity continued to rattle the region, including another jolt nearly as powerful as the initial quake, with workers carefully pulling away slabs of concrete and reaching for bodies as desperate families waited for news of loved ones.
“My grandson is one-and-a-half years old. Please help them, please… They were on the 12th floor,” Imran Bahur wept by her destroyed apartment building in the Turkish city of Adana. Tens of thousands who were left homeless faced a night in the cold.
