Turkish rescue teams continue to pull survivors from collapsed buildings more than a day after a powerful earthquake hit the country's east
Rescue workers search the site of a collapsed building, after an earthquake in Elazig, Turkey on January 26, 2020.
The magnitude 6.8 quake hit on Friday evening, with its epicentre in the small lakeside town of Sivrice in Elazig province but also affected neighbouring cities and countries. Nearly 80 buildings collapsed while 645 were heavily damaged in Elazig and Malatya, the agency said in a statement.
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