Death toll from massive Turkey-Syria earthquake passes 5,000
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The death toll from Monday's devastating earthquake and more than 300 aftershocks in southeastern Turkey and northern Syria topped 5,000 Tuesday, authorities said, as crews raced to try to find survivors in the rubble of thousands of collapsed buildings. The aftershocks made the searching itself dangerous.
A magnitude 5.7 temblor hit Tuesday, officials said.
But Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay told reporters Tuesday that 800 people had been pulled from under rubble. He said there were 20,000 people in national rescue teams.
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