00:00A little girl is rescued from the rubble in the city of Azaz in Syria after a magnitude
00:107.9 earthquake struck the northwest of the country and central Turkey on Monday.
00:16Hundreds of people were killed as buildings collapsed across the region.
00:20Most of Syria's victims were in the provinces of Hama, Aleppo and Latakia.
00:25Many buildings in the area had already suffered damage in the fighting during the country's
00:29nearly 12-year-long civil war. In Damascus, people ran to their
00:35cars to get away from the buildings in case they collapsed, according to witnesses.
00:40In Turkey, rescuers across the region are trying to search for survivors under the rubble.
00:46The quake struck in the early darkness of winter morning, which took many residents by surprise.
00:53This man in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir said the quake woke him up
00:58and he heard loud noises from all over the place. He said it took two minutes for the
01:03shaking to stop. The quake was also felt in Cyprus and Lebanon.
01:08Turkish Interior Minister Solomon Soylu said rescue teams are being dispatched to the region.
01:15Authorities have declared a level 4 alarm that calls for international assistance.
01:20The region straddles seismic fault lines and is prone to earthquakes.
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