Five days after the violent earthquakes that sowed chaos in southeast Turkey and northern Syria, rescuers are still launched in a time trial to find survivors.
According to the last official assessments on Saturday morning, the earthquake, of a magnitude of 7.8, left at least 24,218 dead (20,665 in Turkey and 3,553 in Syria) and more than 60,000 injured.
This earthquake that occurred on Monday at dawn is the worst earthquake in Türkiye since that of August 17, 1999 which had killed 17,000 people. For almost 48 hours, the results of this drama have been increasing.
Twenty-three million people are “potentially exposed, including about five million vulnerable people,” warned the World Health Organization. The WHO had previously said it feared “balance sheets eight times higher than the initial numbers”.
