The Turkish authorities gave a new balance on the number of deaths in the country due to the large magnitude earthquakes that caused the collapse of buildings, leaving thousands of people trapped.
Officials and doctors specified that 21,848 people have been reported dead in Turkeythese are added to the 3,553 in Syria leaving a total of 25,401 fatalities.
In the last hours, the rescue of several people who were still alive despite spending more than 100 hours under the rubble of buildings was known.
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The World Health Organization, on the other hand, placed the people affected by the earthquakes in both countries at almost 26 million.
The United Nations health agency requested $42.8 million to meet immediate health needs.
The WHO, which has already released $16 million from its emergency fund, said on Tuesday that up to 23 million people could be affected.
But the organization now puts the number at 26 million, with 15 million in Turkey and about 11 million in war-torn Syria.
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Of this number, more than five million people are considered particularly vulnerable, including 350,000 elderly people and more than 1.4 million children.
The WHO estimates that in Turkey, where more than 4,000 buildings collapsed, 15 hospitals suffered partial or serious damage.
In Syria, where the health system has been decimated after 12 years of civil war, at least 20 health facilities in the northwest of the country were damaged. The figure includes four hospitals.
WHO Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus arrived in the Syrian city of Aleppo on Saturday and tweeted that he was heartbroken “to see the conditions facing the survivors.”
Arrested in Turkey
The authorities announced that 48 people had been arrested for looting in eight provinces of the country after the earthquakes.
On Tuesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared a three-month state of emergency in 10 earthquake-affected provinces in southeastern Turkey.
According to a decree published on Saturday, that means prosecutors can detain looting suspects for seven days, not four.
This same Saturday, Erdogan said that the authorities will be firm with the looters.
“We have announced a state of emergency. That means that from now on, people involved in looting or kidnapping should know that the firm hand of the state is on them,” the president said during a visit to Diyarbakir province. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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