Death toll reaches 34 thousand after earthquake in Turkey and Syria 

This is reported by CNN.

Turkish Emergency Coordination Center SAKOM reported 29 605 dead.

The confirmed death toll in Syria is 4 574. That number includes more than 3,160 in opposition-held parts of northwestern Syria. The Syrian death toll also includes 1,414 deaths in government-controlled parts of Syria.

• On February 6, two powerful earthquakes with a 7 point magnitude occurred in the southeast of Turkey and the northwest of Syria.

• The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, expressed his condolences to the President of Turkey and the Syrians for the losses caused by the earthquake.

• On February 8, a group of Ukrainian rescuers and paramedics arrived in Turkey.

• On February 10, six people who had been under the rubble of the destroyed building for more than 100 hours were rescued. A Ukrainian woman and her 4-year-old son were also rescued from the rubble.

• On February 11, Mehmet Yashar Joshkun, the head of the construction contractor of the Renaissance residential complex in Hatay province, where buildings collapsed instantly during the earthquake, was detained in Turkey while trying to leave the country. Law enforcement officers subsequently detained or issued arrest warrants for approximately 130 people involved in the construction of the houses that collapsed.

• On the afternoon of February 12, it was reported that more than 33 000 people died in Turkey and Syria as a result of the earthquakes.