“There are no Ecuadorians affected in the area,” says the Foreign Ministry due to earthquakes in Turkey

A large-magnitude earthquake affected the residents of Turkey and Syria last Monday, hours later another magnitude 7.5 was recorded. Until this Tuesday, the death toll exceeded 5,000.

Rescue teams have been deployed in the various affected cities in Turkey and northern Syria in order to locate survivors.

Vice President Fuat Oktay declared that the death toll rose to 3,419 in Turkey, while in Syria the authorities have recorded 1,602 deaths.

The death toll in Turkey and Syria due to earthquakes rises to 5,000

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan decreed a state of emergency for a period of three months in the ten southeastern provinces hit by the quake.

Based on the maps of the affected area, a person in charge of the World Health Organization (WHO), Adelheid Marschang, indicated that “23 million people are exposed” to the consequences of the earthquake, “including five million vulnerable people”. .

“It’s a race against time,” warned the director general of the institution, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Which plates converge in the area of ​​the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria

Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan announced that 45 countries offered earthquake relief.

This became the largest earthquake in Turkey since the one that occurred on August 17, 1999, which killed 17,000 people, a thousand of them in Istanbul.

The Ecuadorian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that no Ecuadorian is in the affected area.

The soccer players Enner Valencia, Jordy Caicedo and Jaime Ayoví indicated that they are well and have not been affected by the earthquake. In images shared on social networks, the Ecuador striker was observed in the Qatar 2022 World Cup buying supplies for the victims. (YO)