According to the UN, the number of victims of the February 6 earthquake could be twice as high.
He keeps climbing. The balance sheet of the violent earthquake which struck Turkey and Syria on February 6 rises this Monday February 13 in the morning to 35,225 dead, according to the latest official reports.
The 7.8 magnitude earthquake killed 31,643 people in southern Turkey, Afad, Turkey’s public disaster management agency, said on Monday, while authorities counted 3,581 dead in Syria. The UN said on Sunday that the toll could still “double“.
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