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7.8-magnitude tremor hit early on Monday, levelling buildings while many were still asleep and trapping people under rubble
- Turkey and Syria earthquake: follow the latest updates live
- What we know so far
- Destruction strikes at night – in pictures
Hundreds of people have been killed as they slept in Turkey and Syria after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit in the early hours of Monday morning, in one of the most powerful quakes in the region in at least a century.
Thousands more were injured as the quake wiped out entire sections of major cities in a region filled with millions of people who have fled the civil war in Syria and other conflicts.
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