The hope of finding survivors fall aside over time more than 72 hours after the disaster. The results of the earthquakes that have struck Turkey and Syria continues to increase and now exceeds 17,500 dead.
The new, always provisional assessment officially disseminated more than 17,500 victims who died in the earthquake and its aftershocks that touched Turkey and Syria on Monday morning.
According to this new assessment, some 14,351 people died in Türkiye and 3162 in Syria, according to authorities and medical sources, bringing the total number of victims to 17,513.
The official overall counting of the victims reaches, moreover, nearly 60,000 injured in Türkiye and 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”.
