The death toll from the earthquake that struck southern Turkey on February 6 has risen to 49,589, including 6,807 foreigners. Turkish Vice President Fuad Oktay said, in a press conference today, that his country continues to do its best to face the consequences of the earthquake.
added that "All ministries and governmental and private institutions are doing their best to deal with the problems in the earthquake areas". The latest statistics indicated that 48 thousand and 448 people were killed.
It is noteworthy that a violent earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale struck southern Turkey and northern Syria on the sixth of last February, followed by another earthquake measuring 7.6 degrees, followed by thousands of violent aftershocks, killing tens of thousands and damaging buildings and property in the two countries, and two weeks later it struck A 6.4-magnitude earthquake in the Dafna area near the city of Antakya killed 3 people.
