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The World Health Organisation has said the death toll of the earthquake which hit Turkey and Syria could reach 20,000

The death toll of the earthquake which hit Turkey and Syria earlier this week has passed 8,700. Search teams from around the world have joined in the rescue effort with many more people still trapped beneath the rubble.

The earthquake, which had a magnitude of 7.8, hit the two countries on February 6. Hundreds of aftershocks have also hit the region.

Turkey-Syria earthquake: death-toll at least 8,700 as Syrian town bombed ‘straight after’ earthquake