With hope fading to find survivors, stretched rescue teams toiled Wednesday in Turkey and Syria, searching for signs of life in the rubble of thousands of buildings toppled byΒ a catastrophic earthquake.
Search teams and emergency aid from around the world poured into Turkey and Syria on Tuesday as rescuers working in freezing temperatures dug through the remains of buildings flattened by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake.
A series of strong aftershocks followed just minutes after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake Monday morning. A 7.5 magnitude earthquake followed hours later.
Bands ofΒ sleet and snowΒ brought traffic to a standstill across the nation's midsection, canceled thousands of flights, left hundreds of thousands without power and were blamed for six deaths.