The results of the earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria continued to increase and exceeded on Friday, four days after the disaster more than 21,700 dead.
The new, always provisional assessment officially disseminated more than 21,700 victims who died in the earthquake and its aftershocks that affected Turkey and Syria on Monday morning.
According to this new assessment, some 17,134 people died in Turkey and 3162 in Syria, according to the authorities and medical sources, bringing, at first, to 20,296 the total number of victims, according to official counts.
A first official communication issued this Friday morning updated this assessment of 21,000 dead. The human record has still been enhanced to now reach more than 21,700 victims.
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”.
