The result of the earthquake leads to fatal figures: more than 1,300 people died and thousands more were injured so far as a result of the earthquake.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, reported that the earthquake left at least 912 dead and some 5,385 injured in his country. At the same time, the figures reached 326 dead and 1,042 wounded in the Syrian government-controlled areas.
The most violent earthquake since 1999
The epicenter of the quake was located in the province of Kahramanmaras, 600 kilometers from the capital of Turkey, Ankara. According to the Kandilli Observatory of the Bosphorus University (Istanbul), It is the earthquake with the highest number of deaths since 1999 in Izmit, which left a total of 17,000 deaths.
It is very likely that the balance sheet will worsen quickly and the figures will increase by the minute due to collapsed buildings in the most affected cities such as Adana, Gaziantep, Sanliurfa and Diayarbakir, in the southeast of Turkey. For security reasons, the gas was cut off throughout the area, due to aftershocks and fears of explosions.
“My sister and her three children are under the rubble. Also her husband, her mother-in-law and her mother-in-law. Seven members of our family are under the rubble,” she explained to the news agency. AFP Muhittin Orakci, while watching rescue operations in front of a ruined building in Diyarbakir.
Source: Ambito
