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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Death toll in Turkey, Syria earthquakes rises to more than 8,300 11200
2023-02-08
[WashingtonPost] The corpse count from two massive earthquakes and scores of aftershocks has risen to more than 8,300 in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
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 and Syria, officials said, as rescuers continue to comb the rubble for survivors in freezing temperatures.

Ottoman Turkish state media reported Wednesday that 6,234 people had died and 37,011 were maimed. In government-controlled parts of Syria, at least 812 people were killed and 1,449 injured, according to state media. In Syria’s rebel-held northwest, civil defense workers reported 1,280 deaths and more than 2,600 injured — a number they said they expected to rise significantly with hundreds still buried under rubble.

Ottoman Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay had earlier estimated that as many as 5,775 buildings had collapsed. Some 8,000 people have been pulled from the rubble.
NPA Syria adds:
The Syrian opposition-affiliated Civil Defense group, also known as the White Helmets, said on Tuesday that victims of the earthquake that hit The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
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 and Syria a day earlier have risen to 3.300.

The Civil Defense, which operates in the opposition-controlled northwest Syria, said that the toll of the devastating earthquake has reached 970 deaths and 2300 injuries.

It added that the number is highly expected to rise since dozens of families are still trapped under the rubble. It said that there are more than 150 families trapped in the town of Jinderis in Afrin countryside and in the towns of Azmarin and Salqin in Idlib northern countryside, which has been confirmed by North Press correspondents in the area.
Update from the Times of Israel at 9:10 a.m. ET:
The death toll from a massive earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria rises above 11,200 as rescuers race to save survivors trapped under debris in the winter cold.

Officials and medics say 8,574 people have died in Turkey and 2,662 in Syria from Monday’s 7.8-magnitude tremor, bringing the total to 11,236.
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