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More than 45,000 people have been killed in the Turkey earthquake

Rescue teams search for people as cranes remove debris from destroyed buildings in Antakya, southeastern Turkey, Feb. 10, 2023

Rescue teams pulled three people alive from under collapsed buildings in Turkey on Friday, 11 days after earthquakes that have killed more than 45,000, left millions homeless and sparked a huge relief effort.

Mosques around the world performed absentee funeral prayers for the dead in Turkey and Syria, many of whom could not receive full burial rites given the immense damage from the disaster.

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