Gallery: Earthquake leaves more than 250 dead in Turkey

Updated: 16:44, Monday, 24 October 2011

Rescue teams are working in southeast Turkey after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit on Sunday.

  • People, wrapped up in blankets, sit on a street after an earthquake in the Ercis province of Van
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    People, wrapped up in blankets, sit on a street after an earthquake in the Ercis province of Van

  • Survivors and emergency service workers are searching through broken concrete
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    Survivors and emergency service workers are searching through broken concrete

  • At least 100 people have died in the city of Van
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    At least 100 people have died in the city of Van

  • Rescue workers carry an injured woman
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    Rescue workers carry an injured woman

  • People leave Ercis, one day after the 7.2 magnitude earthquake
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    People leave Ercis, one day after the 7.2 magnitude earthquake

  • Rescuers scrambled through the rubble in a desperate search for survivors
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    Rescuers scrambled through the rubble in a desperate search for survivors

  • Some 1,090 injured in the nation's worst quake in years
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    Some 1,090 injured in the nation's worst quake in years

  • People receive aid from the Red Crescent
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    People receive aid from the Red Crescent

  • Cranes digging through rubble as Turkish rescuers take part in an operation to salvage people from a collapsed building
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    Cranes digging through rubble as Turkish rescuers take part in an operation to salvage people from a collapsed building

  • Aid being delivered following quake
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    Aid being delivered following quake

  • Residents of Ercis stand near a fire on a street
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    Residents of Ercis stand near a fire on a street