A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked wide swaths of Turkiye and Syria early Monday, toppling hundreds of buildings and killing more than 2,300 people.

This footage sent to Storyful by Ahmet Aslan shows people in Sanliurfa running as a building collapses.

The quake was measured at 7.8 magnitude by the US Geological Survey. An aftershock of 7.5 magnitude was also recorded, the agency said.

Credit: Ahmet Aslan via Storyful

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