Turkey earthquake death toll

 Turkey earthquake death toll, Huge earthquake kills 8300 in Turkey and Syria, bad weather worsens plightTwinEarthquakes Kill Almost 8300 in Turkey and Syria 

 A huge earthquake killed more than 8300 people across a swathe of Turkey and northwest Syria on Monday, with freezing winter weather adding to the plight of the many thousands left injured or homeless and hampering efforts to find survivors

The magnitude 7.8 quake brought down whole apartment blocks in Turkish cities and piled more devastation on millions of Syrians displaced by years of war

The worst tremor to strike Turkey this century, it came before sunrise in harsh weather and was followed in the early afternoon by another large quake of magnitude 7.7

It was like the apocalypse," said Abdul Salam al-Mahmoud, a Syrian in the northern town of Atareb. It's bitterly cold and there's heavy rain, and people need saving

The second quake was big enough to bring down more buildings and, like the first, was felt across the region, endangering rescuers struggling to pull casualties from the rubble

It is already the highest death toll from an earthquake in Turkey since 1999, when a tremor of similar magnitude devastated the heavily populated eastern Marmara Sea region near Istanbul, killing more than 17,000