(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 4. The death toll
from the devastating earthquake in southern Türkiye has reached
2921, the head of the Turkish Emergency Management Agency (AFAD)
Yunus Sezar said, trend reports citing Turkish media.
According to him, another 15,834 people were injured.
Earlier, Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay said that a total of
7,840 people were rescued from the rubble.
Oktay added that 338,000 people were accommodated in
dormitories, universities and shelters.
A 7.7-magnitude earthquake was recorded in central Türkiye on
the morning of Feb. 6, 2023, according to the
European-Mediterranean Seismological Center. The quake's epicenter
was located 26 km away from the city of Gaziantep with a population
of about 1.06 million. The source of the earthquake was 7 km below
the surface.
Türkiye's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority said that
three more earthquakes with a magnitude of 6.4-6.6 rocked Gaziantep
province in south-eastern Türkiye. As a result of the earthquake
that hit Türkiye, strong tremors were also felt in Syria, Lebanon,
Egypt, and Cyprus.
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