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Hundreds killed in Turkey, Syria earthquake

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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera

A major earthquake of magnitude 7.9 has struck central Turkey and northwest Syria, killing scores of people and injuring hundreds as buildings collapsed. Emerging from the devastation are stories of survival. Rescue workers saved an injured child from the rubble of collapsed buildings in Syria's Azaz.