Update: Death toll from earthquake in Turkey, Syria rises to 3,800

ANKARA, Feb. 07 (YPA)— The death toll from the earthquake that struck on Monday in southern Turkey has risen to 2,400, in addition to the injuries of 14,000 people in several provinces, according to the Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Agency.

The agency announced that 145 aftershocks were recorded and 3,471 buildings collapsed in the 7.9-magnitude earthquake.

It reached a depth of 7 kilometers below the earth’s surface, causing massive destruction and human casualties.

A large number of buildings in 10 Turkish states collapsed as the earthquake struck Gaziantep, Sanliurfa, Kahramanmaraş, Malatya, Diyarbakir, Adana, and other regions and states.

The head of the Seismological Observatory in Turkey said that this quake has been the largest since the August 1999 earthquake that killed 17,000 people, including a thousand in Istanbul.
Meanwhile, the number of victims across Syria has risen to 1,400 people, and the injured to 4,000.

The earthquake struck the provinces of Aleppo, Idlib, Hama, Latakia and Tartous, including the capital, Damascus, Latakia, and a number of other provinces, according to the official Syrian News Agency.

The Syrian Civil Defense also confirmed the complete collapse of 133 buildings and 272 partially, and thousands of buildings were cracked in northwestern Syria.
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