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A 7.8-magnitude earthquake that had its epicenter in southeastern Turkey left more than 110 people dead and hundreds more wounded in northern and western Syria early on Monday, state television and a ministry source said, calling on citizens to help shuttle victims to hospitals in their cars.
A health official in Syria’s hard-hit Aleppo province told Reuters some residents were still under the rubble and wounded people were flocking to hospitals in waves.
Rescuers have been rushing to search for survivors under the rubble of collapsed buildings since the earthquake hit Syria at dawn.
At least 284 people died in Turkey from a 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck the country’s southeast on Monday, Vice President Fuat Oktay said, updating earlier figures.
Oktay said more than 2,300 people were injured in one of Turkey’s biggest quakes in at least a century, adding that search and rescue work continued in several major cities.
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At least 111 people were killed in a powerful earthquake in northern Syria, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported on Monday, citing the country’s Health Ministry.
An aide to the Syrian health minister noted that the number of victims could increase. He added that medical teams had been dispatched to Aleppo, Latakia and Hama from other regions of the country, and medicines had also been sent.
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Magnitude Mw 7.8
Region CENTRAL TURKEY
Date time 2023-02-06 01:17:32.6 UTC
Location 37.23 N ; 37.02 E
Depth 10 km
Distances 37 km WNW of Gaziantep, Turkey / pop: 1,065,000 / local time: 04:17:32.6 2023-02-06
26 km ENE of Nurdağı, Turkey / pop: 12,800 / local time: 04:17:32.6 2023-02-06
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Syrian health ministry says more than 200 dead
ReplyDeleteSome 237 people have been killed and 639 injured in Syria in the powerful earthquake, assistant health minister Ahmed Dhamiriyeh has told state television.
The affected swath of Syria is divided between government-held and opposition-held areas.
In rebel-held northwest Syria, the opposition’s Syrian Civil Defense described the situation as “disastrous” adding that entire buildings have collapsed and people are trapped under the rubble.
Death toll likely to keep rising over the next days: Expert
ReplyDeleteMartin Mai, professor of geophysics at King Abdullah University, has told Al Jazeera that the death toll from “one of the largest earthquakes experienced [in the region] for hundreds of years” is likely to keep rising over the next days.
“In the past, these earthquakes in Turkey have led to about 13,000 fatalities owing to the style of building construction. The sheer size of this event will have a profound economic impact as well,” Mai said.
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