The total number of dead as a result of earthquakes in Turkey has already exceeded 20,000. Almost all of them died in Turkey itself, several thousand also died in Syria.
The updated data was published by the Turkish Emergency Management Agency.
They reported that 17,134 people have died in the country so far. Another 70,347 people were injured. In addition, 30,360 victims were evacuated to safer provinces.
As for Syria, according to the latest data, 3,317 people died there.
- On the morning of February 6, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 occurred in Turkey, the strongest in the country this century. It was followed by two more earthquakes of magnitude 7.7 and 7.6. It also affected neighboring Syria. Thousands of people died, tens of thousands were injured.
- The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine instructed to send a search and rescue team of specialists of the State Service for Emergency Situations to Turkey to help eliminate the consequences of the earthquake and search for people missing under the rubble.