11 minutes agoMore than 25 thousand deaths from earthquakes in Turkey and Syria
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(3 years ago)Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan said on January 11th that the number of victims from February 6th earthquakes in Turkey and Syria has gone to over 25,000. This announcement comes shortly after rescue teams in Turkey have taken alive two women from the ruins, as they had been blocked for 122 hours, [...]
Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan said on January 11th that the number of victims from February 6th earthquakes in Turkey and Syria has gone to over 25,000.
This announcement comes shortly after rescue teams in Turkey have unearthed two women alive from the ruins, as they had been blocked for 122 hours, authorities said on Saturday.
The previous day, Turkey's president, Recep Tayip Erdogan, said authorities should have acted earlier after this natural disaster.
Sixty-seven persons have been removed from the ruins in the 24 hours advance, Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay said during an address in late hours Friday.
About 80,000 people are being treated in hospitals, meanwhile 1.05 million persons left homeless, Oktai said.
Our main goal is to make sure that they return to normal life, offering them housing within a year and healing their pain as soon as possible”, Oktai stressed.
In Syria, which was also hit by earthquakes of 7.8 and 7.5, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has made his first visit to earthquake-affected areas. As the Syrian state media reported, he and his wife Asma have visited a hospital in Alepo.
His government has approved humanitarian aid to the entire front line in the 12-year civil war, a move that could help millions of people in urgent need of help.
Monday's 7.8-strong earthquake followed by several other powerful earthquakes in Turkey and Syria is the seventh deadliest disaster of this century.
An earthquake of similar magnitudes in Turkey in 1999 had killed over 17,000 people. / REL
