With this new count, the number of injured has already risen to 85,380 in both countries.
Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğanannounced that the death toll in Turkey has risen to 21,848while the number of injured stands at 80,104.
For its part, the count in Syria has hardly changed compared to the figure proposed by the president’s government the day before Bashar al-Assad like the group of rescuers white helmets, which operate in opposition areas in the northwest of the Arab country. The death toll in the Arab country is 3,553, 2,166 of them in rebel-held areas.
In Turkey, despite rescuers continuing to work, only 67 people have been found alive in the past 24 hours, including a two-month-old baby, as the number of bodies recovered from the rubble grows.
More than 13 million of people in ten provinces and it is feared that there are thousands more victims under the rubble.
Source: El heraldo
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