Rescuers in Hatay worked against time in harsh winter conditions on Tuesday evening (February 7), trying to dig people out of the rubble of collapsed buildings as the death toll of Turkey and Syria’s devastating earthquake jumped to more than 7,800.
Turkish authorities say some 13.5 million people were affected in an area spanning roughly 450 km from Adana in the west to Diyarbakir in the east, and 300 km from Malatya in the north to Hatay in the south.
Syrian authorities have reported deaths as far south as Hama, some 250 km from the epicenter.
