Live: Turkey, Syria earthquake death toll surpasses 5,000 as rescuers search for survivors
Rescuers in Turkey and Syria dug through the freezing night and morning Tuesday, hunting for survivors among the rubble of thousands of buildings felled in a series of violent earthquakes that started in the early hours of Monday morning. The death toll across the two countries reached 5,102 after the swarm of strong tremors occurred near the Turkey-Syria border – the largest of which measured a massive 7.8 in magnitude.