As the hours pass, the chances of finding survivors among the rubble diminish. More than 67,000 injuries have been recorded. Turkish President Erdogan has specified that there have been more than 600 tremors in the area after Monday’s earthquakes.
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The death toll from Monday’s earthquakes in southern Turkey, near the border with Syria, has now exceeded 15,000according to the balances published so far, including more than 12,000 deaths on Turkish territory and about 3,000 in Syria.
The Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), under the Ministry of the Interior Turkeyspecified during the early hours of this Thursday that 12,391 people have lost their lives in their country, while 62,914 have been injured, according to the Anatolian bureau.
Hours earlier, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan described from Hatay province — as far as he went this Wednesday to visit the injured — that the earthquakes are “a big mess”.
The Turkish president emphasized that during his visit to the area affected by the earthquakes 6444 buildings have been destroyed. “We have mobilized all our resources. The state is cooperating with the authorities by all means,” he stressed before assuring that the search and rescue work will not end “until no one is left under the rubble.”
The Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), under Turkey’s Interior Ministry, has indicated that “another 648 have been recorded after the first earthquake, the largest of which is a magnitude of 7.6 with an epicenter in Elbistan”, before to confirm that more than 98,100 officers, non-governmental organization workers, search and rescue teams and volunteers are deployed in the affected areas. Turkey has also created an air bridge for the transfer of personnel and equipment from Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir.
In this regard, the government has set up a crisis management center at the Ministry of Defense to “face this major disaster”, to transport the personnel and rescue team through an air-relief bridge.
situation in Syria
For its part, the earthquake has left 1,262 killed and 2,285 injured in areas of Syria controlled by the authorities, according to data from the Syrian Ministry of Health, collected by the Syrian state news agency SANA. This data corresponds to the provinces of Aleppo, Hama, Latakia, Tartus and the areas of Idlib held by government forces.
In the opposition-held areas of Idlib and Aleppo (northwest), more than 1,900 have been killed and 2,950 injured, according to the latest tally by the White Helmets, a group of rescuers active in Syria’s opposition regions. .
“We are in a race against time and working with the maximum energy available and with the cooperation of all parties,” reads a statement from the Syrian Ministry of Health, which indicates that the country’s executive branch will implement the emergency measures taken by the Syrian government. control the situation, revised.
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Source: EITB
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