Push to find survivors of ‘disaster of the century’ as death toll tops 20,000

Aerial photo showing the destruction in a city in southern Turkey (IHA via AP)

Rescue workers are making a final push to find survivors of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria that rendered many communities unrecognisable to their inhabitants and led the Turkish president to declare it “the disaster of the century”.

The death toll from the quake has now topped 20,000.