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Nearly 1,300 dead in Syria after Turkey quake: new toll

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At least 1,293 people were killed and 3,411 injured across Syria on Monday in an earthquake that had its epicentre in southwestern Turkey, the government and rescuers said.

In government-controlled areas the toll rose to “1,411 injured and 593 dead in the provinces of Aleppo, Latakia, Hama, Tartus”, Syria’s health ministry said. In rebel-held parts of the country’s northwest, at least 700 people were killed and more than 2,000 injured, according to the White Helmets rescue group.

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