About 35,000 people are now known to have lost their lives as of the evening of 12 February in the devastating twin earthquakes that hit primarily Kurdish regions of Turkey and Syria on 6 February.
Turkey’s death toll from the earthquakes that struck the country’s southeastern provinces has reached 29,605, announced the country’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) on Sunday.
The number of those who lost their lives in Syria where the same major tremors of magnitudes 7.8 and 7.4 hit the north of the country, has been updated to 5,273, according to the latest death toll published by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.