As the hours go by, the chances of finding survivors among the rubble are reduced. 62,914 wounded have been recorded. Turkish President Erdogan has specified that after Monday’s earthquakes there have been more than 600 tremors in the area.
Euskaraz irakurri: 15,000 pertsonatik gora hil dira Turkian eta Sirian izandako lurrikaren ondorioz
The death toll from Monday’s earthquakes in southern Turkey, near the border with Syria, has already exceeded 15,000according to the balances published to date, which include more than 12,000 deaths in Turkish territory and some 3,000 in Syria.
The Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), under the Ministry of the Interior of Turkeyhas specified 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 Anatolia agency.
Hours earlier, the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, described from the province of Hatay —as far as he went this Wednesday to visit the injured— that the earthquakes have been “a big mess”.
The Turkish president stressed during his visit to the area affected by the earthquakes that 6444 buildings have been destroyed. “We have mobilized all our means. The State is working together with the authorities, with all its means,” he stressed before assuring that the search and rescue work will not end “until no one remains under the rubble.”
The Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), under the Turkish Ministry of the Interior, has indicated that “after the first earthquake another 648 have been registered, the largest being a magnitude 7.6 with an epicenter in Elbistan”, before to confirm that more than 98,100 agents, workers from non-governmental organizations, 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 materials from Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir.
In this context, the Government has created a Crisis Management Center in the Ministry of Defense to “confront this great disaster”, in order to transport the personnel and the rescue team through an air aid bridge.
situation in syria
For its part, the earthquake has left 1,262 dead and 2,285 wounded 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. These data correspond to the provinces of Aleppo, Hama, Latakia, Tartus and the areas of Idlib in the hands of government forces.
In the areas of Idlib and Aleppo (northwest) in the hands of the opposition, the balance exceeds 1,900 fatalities and 2,950 injured, according to the latest count offered by the White Helmets, a group of rescuers that operates in the opposition regions of Syria. .
“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 has reviewed the emergency measures that govern the situation.
Source: Eitb
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