About 600 persons have been killed after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake rocked southeast Turkey and northern Syria.
At least 284 deaths were reported to have died in Turkey, while 384 people died in Syria.
Turkey’s Vice-President Fuat Oktay said the death toll there had risen to 284.
In Syria, more than 380 people died, with victims in both government-controlled and rebel-held areas.
The Syrian health ministry said 239 people had died in Aleppo, Latakia, Hama and Tartus provinces.
The White Helmets rescue group, which operates in rebel-controlled areas of north-western Syria, said on Twitter that at least 147 people had died there.
There are fears the number of deaths will rise sharply in the coming hours.
Many buildings have collapsed and rescue teams have been deployed to search for survivors under huge piles of rubble.
The epicentre of the quake was in the Pazarcik district of Kahramanmaras province. Turkish Interior Minister Suleymon Soylu said 10 cities were affected: Gaziantep, Kahramanmaras, Hatay, Osmaniye, Adiyaman, Malatya, Sanliurfa, Adana, Diyarbakir and Kilis.
In Gaziantep, at least 80 people were killed, officials said, while 70 died in Kahramanmaras.
In Malatya province, north-east of Gaziantep, at least 47 people were killed. In Sanliurfa, to the east, there were 18 deaths. Other deaths were reported in various places including Diyarbakir and Osmaniye.
At least 2,323 people were injured in Turkey and nearly 1,000 in Syria.
