Ankara-Sana
The number of victims of the earthquake that struck eastern Turkey yesterday rose to 19 dead and 922 injured.
Turkish media quoted Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management as saying in a statement today that the number of earthquake victims rose to 19 dead, including 15 in Alazig state and 4 in the Malatya state in eastern Turkey, while the number of injured reached 922 people.
For his part, Turkish Interior Minister Suleiman Soylu announced that nearly 30 people were considered missing in the state of Alazig, which makes the death toll a candidate for the rise, while Environment Minister Murad Qorum indicated that 30 buildings were destroyed after the earthquake in the states of Alazig and Malatya in addition to other buildings being exposed to various damages .
A previous toll yesterday indicated that 14 people were killed and 270 injured in the earthquake in eastern Turkey.
The National Seismic Monitoring Center in Damascus announced yesterday that a strong earthquake earthquake measuring 6.9 degrees on the Richter scale was monitored in eastern Turkey at a depth of 10 km, a distance of 221 km northeast of the city of Gaziantep and felt by residents in most of the Syrian Arab Republic.
The European Mediterranean Center for Seismology reported earlier that an earthquake measuring 7.6 to 7 degrees east of Turkey occurred.