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Before and after images show the catastrophic effects of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit parts of Turkey and Syria today.
More than 1,700 people have so far been reported dead from the earthquake which rocked eastern Anatolia overnight, bringing down ancient fortresses and reinforced buildings.
News later broke of a second earthquake, which hit at 1:24pm (10:24 GMT), 60 miles north of the first.
Tremors from the first quake could be felt in nearby Lebanon and Cyprus, and as far south as Egypt.
At least 2,818 buildings collapsed as a result of Monday's quake, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said.
Pictures show the effects on the Gaziantep Castle, first built in the second and third century by the Hittite Empire, which arrived in Anatolia in the Bronze Age.
The castle saw nearly two millennia of use as a Roman castle, Ottoman fortress and most recently as a museum, before it was damaged and collapsed in the earthquake
