a minute agoUN: Number of Dead in Turkey Could Go to 20,000
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)The United Nations has declared that the death toll from the earthquake in Turkey could total about 20 thousand. A similar earthquake that occurred in 1999 in this country, exactly in the eastern populated region of the Sea of Marmara, near Istanbul, has left more than 17 thousand [...] dead.
A similar earthquake that took place in 1999 in this country, exactly in the eastern populated area of the Sea of Marmara, near Istanbul, has left more than 17 thousand people dead.
“There is an ongoing potential of further collapse to occur, so we often see an increase in eightfold sequences in initial numbers”, the World Health Organization's senior emergency official for Europe told AFP Catherine Smallwood.
More than 10 teams from the European Union are heading towards Turkey to help this state with the search-for process. The US, Britain, Canada, Russia and China have also provided assistance.
Turkey will also come to the aid of a Kosovo Security Force team (FSK), which was headed there yesterday.
