Earthquake in Turkey and Syria: 6 before and after images showing the scale of the destruction

Hundreds of buildings, mosques and churches collapsed in Turkey and Syria after magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 earthquakes that killed thousands of people.

The authorities also reported that there are more than 10,000 injured in Turkey and in northern and central Syria.

It is feared that there are dozens more people trapped under the rubble. Rescue teams from both countries are hard at work searching for survivors.

The shocking images show four and five story buildings completely flattened and reduced to rubble.

Seismologists estimate the first quake to be one of the strongest ever felt in Turkey.

One of the worst affected cities is Gaziantep, a few kilometers southeast of the epicenter of the first quake.

These images show the before and after and give dimension of the damage.

A historic castle – one of the best preserved from Roman times – was also destroyed in Gziantep, as well as the Shirvan Mosque. Another mosque, in the city of Malatya, suffered the same fate.

There were also collapses of buildings and churches in the city of Iskenderun, near the border with Syria.

And in Syria itself, in the city of Ariba, you see a totally crushed building complex.

(YO)