A devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Syria and Turkey.

Hundreds of people died and thousands were injured in a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit southern Turkey at dawn yesterday and spread to Syria. This earthquake is the strongest in the last half century. While rescuers continue to search for survivors under the rubble of completely destroyed buildings and structures, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the death toll has reached 912 people and thousands of injured. On the Syrian side, the Syrian Ministry of Health said the death toll had reached 326 in areas controlled by Damascus, while rescuers counted 147 dead in areas controlled by armed groups in the north of the country. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan released figures showing the death toll from a massive earthquake in southeastern Turkey rose to 912 on Monday, with at least 5,385 injured. He pointed to the collapse of 2,818 buildings, raising fears of a high death toll, while hundreds were killed in neighboring Syria. Yesterday, the Syrian Ministry of Health reported that at least 326 people were killed in government-controlled areas of Syria in an earthquake near the border with Turkey. “516 injured and 326 deaths in the provinces of Aleppo, Latakia, Hama and Tartus,” the ministry said in a statement. On Monday, local rescuers said a strong earthquake killed 147 residents in areas controlled by opposition groups in northern Syria, in addition to hundreds of people injured and trapped under rubble. This brings the total death toll in Syria to at least 473. The White Helmets (civil defense in areas controlled by opposition groups) in northern and northwestern Syria declared the area “completely devastated”, calling for its support for rescue efforts in harsh climate conditions. In the same context, the Italian authorities lowered the level of the tsunami warning in the south of the country, which they issued after a strong earthquake that shook the central part of Turkey, northern and western Syria. At the same time, the Russian Defense Ministry stated that its military facilities in Syria were not damaged after a strong earthquake. Russia, which has close allied ties to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has a large military presence in the country. The Disaster Management Agency stated: “284 of our citizens were killed in Adana, Adiyaman, Malatya, Kahramanmarash and Gaziantep, and 440 citizens were injured in Sanliurfa, Diyarbakir, Adana, Adiyaman, Malatya, Osmaniye, Hatay and Kilis.” that it will rise much more as a result of the massive destruction of a large number of housing structures in large cities. According to the same sources, hundreds of people were injured in both countries. And 28 people died in the Turkish province of Adiyaman, where about a hundred buildings collapsed, its governor said. At least 23 people have been killed and 420 injured in Malatya, the province’s governor told the public television channel TRT. At least 18 people were killed and 30 injured in Sanlıurfa (southeast), the Anadolu news agency reported, citing its governor. At least six more people were killed in Diyarbakir, the provincial governor confirmed. “We heard noise here and there,” said a rescuer sent to the destroyed building in Diyarbakır. We believe that 200 people may be under the rubble, ”the footage broadcast on the NTV network says. According to Agence France-Presse correspondents, the earthquake was felt in the south-east of Turkey, as well as in Lebanon and Cyprus. Footage broadcast by Turkish media shows collapsed buildings in several cities in the country’s southeast, fueling fears that the death toll far exceeds the numbers announced so far. An AFP correspondent in Diyarbakır, a major city in the southeast of the country, saw a collapsed building and rescuers pulling people out of the rubble. On Twitter, Turkish netizens shared the names and locations of people trapped under rubble in several cities in the country’s southeast. Adana Mayor Zidane Karalar said two 17-storey and 14-storey houses were destroyed, TRT reported.