The death toll from a series of devastating earthquakes that centered in south-central Turkey on Monday rose to 3,400 in less than 24 hours since the tremors flattened buildings across the region and into neighboring northern Syria, officials in both countries said, per the AP.
Tens of thousands of civilians in both nations were left homeless amid fucking brutal cold rain and snow, heaping more misery on a region torn by civil war and a refugee crisis for more than a decade since a 2011 uprising against Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Asad. Assistance began pouring in from other nations across the globe as tens of thousands were believed still trapped underneath the rubble of buildings across the vast areas affected by the two 7.0+ magnitude earthquakes and aftershocks.