The death toll rises after the earthquake in Turkey and Syria – news Urix – Foreign news and documentaries

13,000 died in Turkey and 3,000 in Syria. According to local authorities in the countries, this is the status on Thursday morning for what is considered the most powerful earthquake in this area in more than 80 years. In just one day, the number of confirmed deaths has risen by 30 per cent. It is expected that it will rise further as rescuers dig further into the ruins. Thus, the number of dead could soon become greater than during the previous major earthquake in Turkey in 1999. That time more than 17,000 people lost their lives. news’s ​​Sidsel Wold reports from the earthquake area in Turkey. 13.5 million people affected by the earthquake in Turkey Turkish authorities say 13.5 million people live in areas affected by the earthquake, in a zone stretching 450 kilometers from the city of Adana in the west to Diyarbakir in the east. In Syria, people as far south as the city of Hama have lost their lives. The town is 250 kilometers from the epicenter of the earthquake, which was in Elbistan on the Turkish side of the border. When news visited the city of Gaziantep on Wednesday evening, they met many people who did not dare to stay in their houses, for fear that they would collapse. In the city of Gaziantep, many people now choose to live in tents, for fear that their houses will collapse. Photo: Julia Kirsebom Thommessen / news They lived instead in tents that the authorities had set up outside the streets. Many are waiting anxiously to see if it is still possible to find people alive inside the ruins. They were able to tell news that a person had been rescued from the ruins on Wednesday, 61 hours after the house he lived in collapsed. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited the town of Kahramanmaras on Wednesday, which is among the hardest hit by the earthquake. He admitted that there had been problems with the rescue work, but that things were now going much better. – We will manage this better already tomorrow and in the future, said Erdogan, who has come under pressure because the authorities have been too slow in their reaction to the earthquake.



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