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More than 3,800 people died as a result of the devastating disaster. earthquake with a force of 7.8 that shook the southeast Turkey and north of Syriaand it was felt even in Greenland.
In Turkey, where the epicenter was recorded, at least 2,379 people have died, Turkish Vice President Fuat Otkay said on Monday evening. He added that more than 14,483 people were injured.
According to Otkay, a total of 7,840 people were pulled out from under the rubble and 4,748 buildings were destroyed.
IN Syria the earthquake killed at least 1,444 people.
In government-controlled areas, the balance is “1,431 injured and 711 dead in the provinces of Aleppo, Latakia, Hama, Tartus,” the Syrian Ministry of Health said.
In rebel-held areas in the northwest, at least 733 people were killed and 2,100 injured, according to a White Helmets rescue team.
The total death toll rose to at least 3,800 after Turkey revised its death toll.
“The situation is very serious, many people are still under the rubble of buildings,” said surgeon Majid Ibrahim from Al-Rahma Hospital in the Syrian city of Darkush.
According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), the shock was felt at 04:17 (01:17 GMT) at a depth of 17.9 km. The epicenter was located in the Pazardzhik region in southeastern Turkey, about 60 km from the border with Syria.
About fifty aftershocks were recorded, including a magnitude 7.5 that occurred nine hours later four kilometers southeast of Ekinoso.
Seven days of mourning in Turkey
The number of victims is worsening by the hour due to the large number of destroyed buildings – about 3,471, according to authorities – in cities such as Adana, Gaziantep, Sanliurfa and Diayarbakir.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned AFP that the death toll could be eight times that.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared seven days of mourning for the dead. “Our flag will be flown at half mast before sunset on Sunday,” he tweeted.
His handling of this tragedy will carry great weight in the May 14 elections.
Because of the earthquake, most of the people were asleep at dawn.
“We thought it was the apocalypse,” he said. AFP reporter Melisa Salman, who lives in Kahramanmaras, the epicenter of the earthquake.
“We left at half past five in the morning. It is raining, but no one dares to return to their homes for fear of new tremors,” added the 23-year-old man.
In Diyarbakir, about 380 km to the east, Mukhittin Orakchi witnessed rescue work in front of a collapsed building. “Seven members of our family are under the rubble,” he said.
And in Sanliurfa, a few kilometers from Syria, 30-year-old Emin Kachmaz explained that he would not be home all night. “The building is not guarded,” he said.
“The whole building collapsed”
This earthquake is the most significant in Turkey since the August 17, 1999 earthquake that killed 17,000 people, a thousand of them in Istanbul.
According to Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay, at least three airports in the affected area are closed: Hatay, Maras and Gaziantep.
Snow and storms that have hit the region have hampered traffic in other areas, including Diyarbakir, AFP reported.
In the Syrian city of Azmarin, on the border with Turkey, Osama Abdelhamid said he felt trembling in his sleep.
“With my wife and children, we ran to the door of our apartment on the third floor. When we opened it, the whole building collapsed,” he said.
The Syrian news agency SANA released images showing extensive destruction in several cities, including in Latakia, on the Mediterranean coast, where entire buildings collapsed.
Buildings also collapsed in Hama, in the center of the country, and in Aleppo, Syria’s second largest city in the north, where the famous citadel was damaged.
The Ministry of Education announced the closure of schools in all government-controlled regions until the weekend.
Raed Ahmed, head of the Syrian National Seismic Monitoring Centre, told official radio that this was “historically the strongest earthquake on record.”
Minute of silence at the UN
The UN General Assembly honored the victims of the earthquake with a moment of silence, while Secretary General António Guterres expressed “deep sorrow”.
The Syrian government turned to the international community for help, which announced the dispatch of rescue teams.
This has been the case for the European Union (EU) and many of its member states. So did Britain, Israel, India, Azerbaijan and Ukraine, as well as Greece, Turkey’s historical rival.
US President Joe Biden promised for his part “all necessary assistance.”
And Russian President Vladimir Putin, who held talks with his counterparts from both countries, assured that he would send rescue teams.
Other leaders, such as Pope Francis and Chinese President Xi Jinping, offered their condolences to the victims.
Turkey is located in one of the most active seismic zones in the world.
Experts have long warned that a massive earthquake could destroy Istanbul, allowing massive construction to begin without precaution.
(According to AFP)
Source: RPP
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