Over 4,000 dead in devastating earthquakes in Turkey, Syria

TIL Desk/World/Ankara/ The death toll in Turkey and Syria has reached more than 4,000 after three earthquakes jolted the two nations on Monday. The total number of injured in Syria and Turkey has reached 17,400 following the earthquakes.

At least 2,921 people were killed in 10 Turkish provinces, with nearly 16,000 injured, according to Turkish authorities. The death toll in government-held areas of Syria climbed to 656 people, with some 1,400 injured, according to the health ministry. In the country’s rebel-held northwest, groups that operate there said at least 450 people died, with many hundreds injured.

On Monday, an earthquake of magnitude 7.7 centered in the Pazarcik district jolted Kahramanmaras and hit several provinces, including Gaziantep, Sanliurfa, Diyarbakir, Adana, Adiyaman, Malatya, Osmaniye, Hatay, and Kilis, as per the report. Later in the day, an earthquake of 7.6 magnitude centered in Kahramanmaras’s Elbistan district jolted the region. The earthquake was also felt in several neighboring countries, including Lebanon and Syria.