The death toll from the powerful earthquake that hit western Turkey reached 100 on Tuesday (November 3rd), the Turkish government disaster relief authority (Afad) said.
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The magnitude 7 earthquake on the Richter scale on Friday also injured 994 people, 147 of whom are still in hospital, Afad added.
According to Turkish authorities, 1,864 tents have been set up in the Izmir region and to date house some 5,000 people whose homes have been destroyed or damaged.
Rescuers continued to search the rubble on Monday in the hope of finding other survivors, according to AFP journalists on the spot.
Equipped with acoustic detection devices, rescuers regularly urged the crowd to be silent in order to be able to detect even the weakest sounds coming from the rubble.
Some of them would use megaphones to ask possible survivors to try to shout to be located.
Authorities have also arrested nine contractors as part of an earthquake-related investigation into the construction of buildings in Izmir that do not meet the anti-seismic standards in force in Turkey, according to the state agency. Anadolu.