The hope of finding survivors fall aside over time more than 72 hours after the disaster. The results of the earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria continues to increase and exceeded on Thursday 16,000 people.
The new, always provisional assessment officially disseminated now reports more than 16,000 victims who died in the earthquake and its replicas that affected Turkey and Syria on Monday morning.
According to this new assessment, some 12,873 people died in Türkiye and 3162 in Syria, according to the authorities and medical sources, bringing the total number of victims to 16,035.
The official overall counting of the victims reaches, moreover, more than 50,000 injured in Türkiye and 5,000 in Syria.
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”.
