At least 6,300 people have been killed and nearly 26,000 injured in Turkey and Syria due to the two devastating earthquakes on Monday, while rescue efforts continue with fears that there are still hundreds or thousands of people trapped under the rubble.
In Turkey, where the earthquakes of magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 had their epicenter, the official count already speaks of 3,549 deaths and 22,000 injuries.
Faced with this catastrophe, the Turkish government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared a three-month state of emergency in the ten affected provinces.
During the morning of Tuesday, people continued to be located in several of the ten provinces in the southeast of Turkey most affected by the disaster.
In Syria, immersed in a civil war for more than a decade, the information on victims comes, on the one hand, from the government of Bashar al-Assad and, on the other, from the last enclave of the country controlled by the opposition, surrounded by government forces. supported by Russia.
In Turkey, the Government has reported that some 50,000 people are collaborating in the rescue efforts and, in addition, more than 2,700 rescuers from 65 countries have arrived or are on their way to the most affected areas.
