The new data, provided by Turkey’s emergency aid agency Afad, comes as even today victims are being located alive among the rubble of the thousands of buildings that have collapsed in theten provinces worst affected by the earthquake.
Several people were rescued alive this morning.
A 40-year-old woman has been found alive after 170 hours in the remains of a house in the city of Gaziantep. antakya, a man was found alive.
Given these rescues, some experts have called for caution in clearing debris, both for the possibility of survivors and to avoid damaging the bodies of the victims.
Ahmet Ovgun Ercana prestigious geophysicist from Istanbul Technical University has estimated on the social network Twitter that there may still be 155,000 bodies under the rubble.
In Syria, both the government and the white helmet rescue organization have stopped regularly updating their casualty balances.
Other sources cite higher figures, such as the so-called Salvation Government, of the Islamist alliance Levant Liberation Agency, which controls much of the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib, Syria’s last opposition stronghold, and ensures that only their zones have recorded more casualties then report the white helmets for all rebel areas.
This has been reported by the Turkish authorities 158,000 people have been evacuated to other provinces.
Non-compliance with building regulations and the successive amnesty granted by the government to buildings built without permits explain the huge number of fatalities, according to a complaint from the Turkish College of Architects.
“The main reason for this huge tragedy is the permissions given to buildings built without respecting building codes,” he denounced. Emin KoramazPresident of the Turkish Union of Chambers of Architects and Engineers (TMMOB).
Source: El heraldo
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