In Turkey, the death toll from the earthquake in Turkey has risen to 6,234, with 37,011 injured. This was announced on February 8 by the Turkish Department for the Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters and Emergencies.
Earlier that day, it became known that in Turkish Hatay, under the rubble of one of the houses, there is a family from Moscow – a husband and wife and two children aged 2.5 and 4 years. They came to Turkey to visit the relatives of the man. Their house was destroyed during the earthquake. However, the Turkish Ministry of Emergency Situations announced a lack of forces and equipment for rescue. The department said that while the family was included in the “waiting list”.
At the same time, it was reported that a dehydrated girl was rescued under the rubble in Turkey after a strong earthquake. A child trapped in concrete fragments was handed water in a plastic bottle cap. The day before, in the city of Malatya, a man was pulled out from under a collapsed seven-story building, who had lain under the rubble for a day and remained alive.
As Igor Akmaev, deputy head of the search and rescue service of the Centrospas detachment of the Russian Emergencies Ministry, said, there are still chances to find survivors under the buildings destroyed in Turkey after the earthquake.
On February 7, it also became known that at least 57,000 people from Palestine were affected as a result of a devastating earthquake in Syria. People need medicines and non-food items such as blankets, mattresses and hygiene products.
Seismologists recorded an earthquake of magnitude 7.7 on the night of February 6. It happened near the Turkish city of Gaziantep, located near the Syrian border. Several dozen aftershocks followed. In the afternoon there was another earthquake of magnitude 7.6. The victims of the tragedy in Syria were 812 people, more than 1.4 thousand people suffered.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the earthquake was the strongest since 1939. A nationwide mourning has been declared in the country until February 12.
Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed condolences to the leaders of Turkey and Syria in connection with the numerous victims. He stated that Russia is ready to provide the necessary assistance to eliminate the consequences of the earthquake.
