Turkey: 6057 people have died in the earthquake so far.
Al Jazeera announced on Wednesday morning that the number of dead in the Syrian earthquake has increased to 2,370 and the number of injured has increased to 2,544.
However, the Syrian Ministry of Health has announced that 1,250 people have died due to the earthquake in the northern regions and 2,045 people have been injured.
Turkey’s Vice President Fuad Oktay announced early Wednesday morning in updating the statistics of earthquake victims in this country that 5,894 people have died and 34,810 have been injured.
Despite the official statistics in Turkey and Syria, which are updated over time and with the intensification of the debris removal of the earthquake-affected areas, the World Health Organization has predicted that nearly 20,000 people may have died in the 7.7-magnitude earthquake in Turkey and Russia.
Earlier, the World Health Organization warned about the increase in the death toll from the deadly earthquake yesterday (Monday) in Turkey and Syria, announcing that the number of dead may be “eight times” of the official statistics.
On Monday morning, a large earthquake shook the southern regions of Turkey and northern Syria. Agence France-Presse quoted the US Seismological Institute as saying that the magnitude of this earthquake was 7.9 on the Richter scale in southern Turkey.
However, Turkey’s Emergency and Natural Disaster Management confirmed that a 7.4-magnitude earthquake shook the Pazardık region of Kuhramanmaraş in southern Turkey. This Turkish organization announced in its second statement that the magnitude of this earthquake was 7.7 on the Richter scale.
At the same time, Al-Mayadeen reporter announced that the residents of Latakia, Aleppo and Homs provinces, as far as Damascus in Syria, felt the intensity of this great earthquake. It is said that in the morning hours, a large number of residents of Damascus and the provinces of Latakia, Aleppo and Homs poured into the streets for fear of cracking or falling.
To know the news and Syrian of the first day of the great earthquake in Turkey and Syria, click on this link, and the developments of the second day are also summarized in this link.
