Turkey-Syria earthquake: Drone footage shows buildings flattened in Idlib

Drone footage from the Syria Civil Defence force shows the sheer size of the problem facing rescuers searching for survivors.

Whole apartment blocks collapsed while people slept on Monday morning, leaving rescue teams with an enormous task to move debris and save lives.

Thousands of people are thought to have died in the earthquake, which hit Turkey and Syria.

#turkey #syria #earthquake

[Karen]

Please help them, Lord of Heaven and Earth.🙏

[Maggy]

I complain of so much rain in uk but really we should be thankful we haven't had heartbreaking earthquakes my thoughts go out to these ppl 🙏

[karamsabbagh]

I live in Syria 🙄.
The whole building was shaking and moving back and forth.. there was a couple of earthquakes,
But the crazy thing is that my country is Damascus (near Lebanon) which is quite far from the earthquake's center 😵.

[Question]

Oooo my god 😰I’m sending all my love to Turkey 🇹🇷 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[petersmith]

What’s the building code like over there and the quality control inspectors of such codes.
I know folk go to Turkey for cheap dentures.

[abdulbasit]

استغفر الله العظيم رب العرش العظيم وأتوب إليه من قلبي يا رب العالمين 😭😭😭😭

[crystalgail]

GOD Please. Send Help for all them people
Amen

[JohnOLooney]

whats the betting Turkey allow US and NATO missiles to be based inside their country now

[TheRogueEmpire]

very sad. even sadder russian media is laughing at this saying they deserved it.

[nothingtolose]

It's a shame that people will believe this was a natural disaster when in reality it probably wasn't. 😕

[johnhouse]

''phew'' good job this happpend where no one will give a crap buy this time next week.

[b-]

Wonder how many thousands of this lot will come straight to Britain with their hand out 🙄

[thelitgengar]

How about covering the war in the Ukraine or what's projected to be the start of a war between China and Taiwan? Earthquakes happen everyday

[PassportBrosBusinessClass]

So many people calling for God to "help".

What if GOD CALLED THEM HOME?

What if THIS was his WILL?

[myaccount]

Syria is with Russia...Let Russia help them ...