A magnitude 7,8 earthquake left more than 3 dead in Türkiye and Syria.
The situation is exacerbated by a freezing winter, worsening the plight of thousands of injured or homeless people and hindering efforts to find survivors.
247, with international agencies — The powerful earthquake that struck a swath of Turkey and northwestern Syria on Monday, the 6th, killed 3 people and injured 15.500, according to the EFE news agency. The situation is worsening with a freezing winter, exacerbating the plight of thousands of injured or homeless and hindering efforts to find survivors.
In Türkiye alone, the latest count put the death toll at 1.760 and the number of injured at 12.068, according to data reported by AFAD, the emergency agency.
In Syria, divided by civil war for over a decade, information about casualties comes from the government of Bashar al-Assad, on the one hand, and from the region controlled by the US-backed opposition, on the other.
According to the SANA news agency, in the area controlled by the Assad regime, the latest figures were 593 dead and 1.411 wounded. In the province of Idlib, dominated by the US-backed opposition, and in other parts of Aleppo, outside Damascus' control, at least 700 people were killed and about 2.000 wounded, according to the White Helmets rescue group.
According to EFE, these opposition-held areas bordering Turkey are closer to the epicenter, therefore there is less capacity to coordinate the count in the absence of a single government authority in charge of rescue operations.
The earthquake had a magnitude of 7,8. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the tremor was as strong as one recorded in the country in 1939 that killed more than 30 people.
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