And the authority added – according to the Turkish TV “TRT World” today, Friday – that the death toll from the injured rose to 72,879 people.
The television indicated that the death toll in Syria rose to at least 3,377 people, noting that the death toll from the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria rose to 21,051.
Last Monday, an earthquake of 7.7 degrees on the Richter scale struck the region, followed by another earthquake of 7.6 degrees, which caused damage to ten Turkish states and areas of northern Syria.