BODYBAGS are beginning to pile up in Turkey as the death toll from the earthquake passes 11,200.
The massive 7.8 magnitude quake stuck early on Monday with such force that is has moved the country 10ft.
Two further earthquakes struck in the 24 hours after the initial tremor, leaving a trail of destruction stretching for hundreds of miles along Turkey’s border with Syria.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared a three-month state of emergency in quake epicentre, Gaziantep, and nine other cities.
Desperate searches are taking place to find survivors buried underneath the rubble of the thousands of buildings destroyed.
Harrowing images show body bags laid out on the road and it's feared the death toll could eventually reach 20,000.
Such is the scale of disaster that some bodies had to covered with blankets after bags ran out at one hospital.
"People are dying every second - we are in a race against time," said Mohammed Shibli, from Syria's White Helmets civil defence group, who are leading the rescue efforts in the country.
Professor Carlo Doglioni, president of the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, said the earthquake moved Turkey by 3 metres - around 10ft.
“What we call the Arabian plate moved about 3 meters along the northeast-southwest direction relative to the Anatolian plate," he told Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera.
“We are talking about a structure in the border region between this world, that of the Arabian plate and that of the Anatolian plate.”
Big-hearted Sun readers have so far raised £250,000 in response to the devastation.
All money from the Sun Earthquake Appeal d will be donated to the British Red Cross for a major on-the-ground mobilisation.
It comes as a Brit dad said he watched helplessly hundreds of miles away as his baby monitor captured the moment the Turkey earthquake struck.
He said his "blood froze" as he watched the footage of the moment the huge first quake hit early on Monday a
The baby monitor footage has been shared by Lemi, from Hull, who was in Istanbul as his wife and child were in the city of Adana, near the quake’s epicentre, staying with family.
Video shows little Katelyn in her cot when the room begins to shake and her desperate mum picks her up as she can be heard saying “oh my God”.
Lemi, from Hull, there was a “big bang” and the dog began barking before she ran downstairs with Katelyn.
“You can hear the whole building squeaking and that tapping noise," he told the Hull Daily Mail.
"When you watch it your blood freezes.”
After his wife sent Lemi video from the baby camera, he then began the 535 mile drive to Adana, where he came across scenes of devastation with over a dozen apartment blocks flattened.
“Evacuation is not even a subject because once the building collapses they’re already in it and some of them are still under it,” said Lemi, who provides security for Hull City owner Acul Ilicali.
It comes as...
- The death toll has now reached 9500 but up to 20,000 are feared dead across Turkey and Syria.
- A series of disastrous aftershocks have hampered rescue efforts after the collapse of more than 11,000
- At least three Brits are missing in the chaos, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has said.
- Trapped victims have reportedly been sending desperate voice notes begging for help.
- A grieving father was seen holding the lifeless hand of his daughter whose body was trapped in a destroyed building in Kahramanmaras.
- Ex-Chelsea footballer Christian Atsu was miraculously pulled from the rubble of a building in the same city.
- A newborn baby was also pulled alive from the wreckage of a collapsed building in Jindires, Syria, after his mother died giving birth.
- Aid and rescuers are pouring in from across the world, including from the UK and war-torn Ukraine.
- The Sun has launched the Earthquake Appeal to raise money to help respond to the destruction.
“Some of them have been rescued. It’s only been a day so the rescue is still ongoing. There are still many more apartments that have not been looked under.”
A friend has now set up the Go Fund Me page on behalf of Lemi and Victoria.
At least 20,426 are so far reported injured with at least 11,302 buildings destroyed and it's feared the death toll could reach 20,000.
Heartbreaking stories are beginning to emerge from the aftermath of the quake.
Harrowing images show Mesut Hancer sat holding the hand of his 15-year-old daughter Irmak.
She had died in the city of Kahramanmaras, her fingers reaching in vain from the wreckage of their home.
A new baby was born under the rubble was carried to safety with her umbilical cord still attached in Jenderes, in Syria.
Tragically her mother was reported to have died shortly after giving birth while trapped for more than 24 hours.
In the harbour city of Iskenderen, the sky turned black as hundreds of shipping containers caught fire.
In Diyarbakir, a city of 1.8million in central Turkey, rescuers battled to find survivors in a collapsed eight-storey block of flats.
A team of 76 search and rescue specialists with four sniffer dogs have already been dispatched from the UK.