Ten days after the terrible earthquake that struck southern Turkey and northern Syria on February 6, the victims’ assessment left nearly 40,000 dead while hundreds of thousands of homeless people still face hunger and cold in Turkey and Syria.
Tuesday evening, the updated assessment of the earthquake amounted to 39,106 dead – 35,418 officially in southern Turkey, while the authorities counted 3688 in Syria. On Sunday when the results were up to 30,000 dead, the UN had said to expect this figure to reach double.
“We are the witnesses of the worst natural disaster in the WHO Europe region in a century and we are still in the process of measuring its scale,” said an official of the World Health Organization.
Some miraculous
In addition, four people could still be extracted alive from the rubble yesterday, in Türkiye. A couple from Syrians in Antakya was saved, about 210 hours after the earthquake. A little earlier, two young brothers were also able to go out in the open air after spending 198 hours stuck under the rubble.
