At least 400 killed in Turkey and Syria after 7.8-magnitude earthquake

“The toll may increase as many families are still trapped,” it wrote. “Our teams are on the ground searching for survivors & removing the dead from the rubble.”A Turkish broadcaster showed rescue workers in Osmaniye province using a blanket to carry an injured man out of a collapsed four-storey building and putting him in an ambulance. He was the fifth to be pulled from the rubble, it said.Onlookers watch as rescue teams search for survivors in Aleppo, Syria.

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was holding an emergency cabinet meeting to review the damage and discuss the next steps, his office said. People in Damascus, and in the Lebanese cities of Beirut and Tripoli, ran into the street and took to their cars to get away from their buildings in case they collapsed, witnesses said.

The US Geological Survey said the magnitude 7.8 quake struck at a depth of 17.9km. It reported a series of earthquakes, one of 6.7 magnitude.Zardana, Syria. At least 147 people were killed in northwest Syria, rescuers said on Monday. Photograph: Mohammed Al-Rifai/AFP via Getty Images

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