Mehmet Nasir Duran, 67, waits near a collapsed building where five of his family members are trapped in Nurdagi, southeastern Turkey, on Thursday. More than 21,000 people were confirmed dead in the Turkey-Syria earthquake as of Friday morning. Photo: Petros Giannakouris/VCG
Rescuers from China search for trapped victims in Hatay, Turkey, on Thursday. The team rescued three victims that day. Photo: Sha Dati/Xinhua
Gulsum Yesilkaya, 17, is rescued from under rubble 90 hours after the earthquake in Turkey’s Adiyaman on Thursday. Photo: Esra Hacioglu Karakaya/VCG
Rescue workers carry 48-year-old Hulya Kabakulak out from a collapsed building on Thursday some 90 hours after the earthquake in Hatay, Turkey. Photo: Burak Kara /VCG
Aya, who has been coined the “miracle baby,” gets a health check at a hospital in Afrin, Syrian, on Wednesday. The baby was rescued from underneath a destroyed house, with her umbilical cord still tied to her dead mother. Photo: Anas Alkharboutli/VCG
An injured child is rushed to a hospital for treatment at Ataturk Airport in Istanbul, Turkey, on Thursday. Photo: VCG
A firefighting plane drops water to extinguish a blaze at Iskenderun Port caused by the earthquake on Thursday. Photo: Muhammed Abdullah Kurtar/VCG
Rescuers and civilians look for survivors under the rubble of collapsed buildings in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, on Wednesday. Photo: Adem Altan/VCG
A train track in Kahramanmaras is bent out of shape on Wednesday, a result of Monday’s earthquake. Photo: Izzet Mazi/VCG
Monday’s earthquake damaged grain storage silos in Nurdagi, Turkey. Photo: VCG
Buildings are reduced to debris in the village of Besnia in Syria, on Monday. Photo: Omar Haj Kadour/VCG
Heavy machinery is deployed, as part of rescue efforts, to clear rubble at a site of collapsed buildings in Aleppo, Syria, on Thursday. Photo: VCG
A village is submerged in Syria’s Idlib on Thursday. Monday’s earthquake-damaged embankment on Asi River led to floods there. Photo: Izzeddin Kasim/VCG
New burial sites were dug Thursday at Kapicam City Cemetery in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, for those who lost their lives in the earthquake. Photo: Evrim Aydin/VCG