Istanbul-Sana
The death toll from the earthquake that struck the Aegean Sea that shook Turkey and Greece has risen to at least 25 and injured 804.
The Turkish Anadolu Agency quoted the disaster and emergency management in the country as saying that the death toll rose today to 25, one of whom died by drowning, while the number of wounded reached 804, noting that a new earthquake, with a strength of five degrees on the Richter scale, struck this morning at a depth of 7.3 km in Safari Hisar district. For Izmir province, western Turkey.
According to the administration, the region where the first earthquake struck in the Aegean Sea witnessed 341 aftershocks, 31 of them with a magnitude of more than 4.
A previous toll indicated that 17 people were killed and 709 others were injured in the devastating earthquake that struck the Aegean Sea off the coast of Turkey and Greece yesterday with a force of 7 degrees on the Richter scale and led to the collapse and damage of 17 buildings in Izmir, in addition to the killing of two people and wounding eight others on the Greek island of Samos, east of The Aegean Sea.
