Search and rescue efforts in Turkey and Syria are beginning to wind down two weeks after a devastating magnitude 7.8 earthquake that killed more than 44,700 people.
On Saturday morning, rescuers in Hatay, Turkey, pulled three members of the same family, including a 12-year-old child who later died, from the rubble, making them the last people dug up alive.
The full extent of the devastation, including the death toll caused by the earthquake in neighboring Syria, will take longer to assess, according to the UN.
In the aftermath of the disaster, images of devastation, despair and hope spread throughout the world, evoking solidarity with the victims of the earthquake.
These are some of those images
About 105,794 buildings in Tuki have been destroyed or are due to be demolished following the earthquake and its 6,040 aftershocks, according to the country’s Ministry of Environment and Urbanization.
In Antakya, one of the most affected areas in the country, at least 80% of buildings are planned to be demolished.
In Syria, the rebel-controlled northwestern region has suffered the most, making it difficult for the international community to get help to people in desperate need of help.
In parts of earthquake-hit Turkey, rescuers did not arrive until days after the first disaster, causing some people to try to dig their loved ones out of the rubble with their bare hands.
And some international volunteers who came to Turkey after the earthquake reported that they had to wait for permission to start work or that equipment was slow to arrive.
In Syria, two new border crossings opened a week after the earthquake to help bring aid to rebel-held areas, a delay the UN has called “deadly.”
But some critics have argued that the UN should have used additional crossings to bring aid to rebel-held areas without waiting for Damascus’s approval, or find an alternative way to bring aid to the area.
Human Rights Watch added that millions of people in Syria were left without search and rescue teams or assistance following the natural disaster.
But amid the devastation, there were also brief glimmers of hope, such as when a girl was born under the rubble.
Or the story of a two-month-old baby, a two-year-old girl, and a pregnant woman who are rescued five days after an earthquake.