International Desk: The death toll exceeds 50,000 in “the worst earthquake of the century” in Turkey and Syria. More than 44,000 people have died in Turkey alone. And in Syria, about 6,000 people lost their lives. Al-Jazeera news
Earlier, on February 6, at 4:17 a.m. local time, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit the Turkey-Syria border region. A few hours later, an earthquake of magnitude 7.6 was felt in the area. It completely destroyed the southern part of Turkey and the northwestern part of Syria. The death toll in this incident has already exceeded 50,000. More than 2 million people have become homeless.
Turkey’s Disaster Management Authority (AFAD) reported that the death toll in the country has reached 44,218 as of Friday (February 24). And the information from the Syrian government and rescue organizations says that 5,914 people lost their lives due to the earthquake in the war-torn country.
According to the information provided by the organization, since the two earthquakes above the magnitude of 7 on February 6, more than nine thousand aftershocks have been felt in the southeastern part of Turkey and the northern part of Syria.
