Turkey raises the death toll from the earthquakes to more than 16,000, which leaves more than 3,000 dead in Syria

9 Feb. () –

The Turkish authorities have raised this Thursday to more than 16,100 deaths due to the earthquakes registered on Monday in the south of the country, near the border with Syria, a country in which more than 3,000 people have died, according to the latest balances.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has detailed that 16,170 people have been confirmed dead so far, before adding that the number of injured amounts to 64,194, according to the Turkish state news agency, Anatolia.

“Hundreds of thousands of people are participating in the relief efforts. All kinds of equipment and vehicles from all over the country have been directed to the region,” said the Turkish president, who has been in the affected area since Wednesday supervising relief efforts. search and rescue.

During the day, the Turkish Parliament approved the declaration of a state of emergency for a period of three months in the ten affected provinces, a proposal presented on Tuesday by Erdogan himself.

The quakes have left more than 3,000 people dead and 5,000 injured in Syria, of which 1,262 dead and 2,285 injured have been registered in the areas of Syria controlled by the authorities, according to data from the Syrian Ministry of Health collected by the Syrian state agency of news, HEALTHY. These data correspond to the provinces of Aleppo, Hama, Latakia, Tartus and the areas of Idlib in the hands of government forces.

To the Syrian government figures we must add more than 1,900 deaths and 2,950 wounded in the areas controlled by the rebels in the provinces of Idlib and Aleppo (northwest), according to what the Syrian Civil Defense, known as the ‘white helmets’, has said. through his Twitter account, where he insisted that “the balance is expected to increase significantly, since hundreds of families remain trapped under the rubble more than 75 hours after the earthquake.