MADRID, 14 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Turkish authorities have raised this Tuesday to about 32,000 deaths due to the earthquakes registered last week in the province of Kahramanmaras, near the border with Syria, which have left about 36,000 deaths in both countries, according to balances officers.
The Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), under the Turkish Ministry of the Interior, has indicated in a statement published on its website that so far 31,974 deaths have been confirmed in ten provinces and has added that nearly 195,000 people have been “evacuated”.
Likewise, it has pointed out that more than 35,200 members of the search and rescue teams, as well as members of various government agencies, are working on the ground, including some 9,500 who arrived from abroad.
To this death toll must be added 1,414 deaths in areas controlled by the Syrian government and nearly 2,300 in areas in the hands of the rebels in the northwest of the country, according to data from the Syrian Civil Defense, known as ‘white helmets’. ‘.
The ‘white helmets’ have indicated this Tuesday in their account on the social network Twitter that “after consolidating the data from the medical authorities, the number of victims of the earthquake in northwestern Syria is 2,274 dead and more than 12,400 injured “. “Our teams have responded to 2,170 of the deaths and have treated nearly 2,950 injuries,” they added.
“Search operations to recover the bodies of the deceased are underway in several locations in the provinces of Idlib and Aleppo, eight days after the violent earthquake shook the region,” the Syrian Civil Defense has concluded.
The regional director of emergencies for the World Health Organization (WHO), Rick Brennan, said on Sunday from Damascus that the agency estimates that at least 9,300 would have died in Syria — some 4,800 in areas controlled by the authorities and 4,500 in areas in rebel hands–, although he qualified that right now there is no way to make an adjusted projection.