Earthquake in Turkey and Syria: death toll reaches over 9638

On the morning of February 8, the Turkish Emergency Management Agency reported 7,108 deaths in Turkey, with another 40,910 injured.

"As of 10:35 a.m., a total of 7,108 citizens were killed in the (Turkish - ed.) provinces of Marash, Gaziantep, Urfa, Diyarbakir, Adana, Adiyaman, Osmaniye, Hatay, Kilis, Malatya and Elazig; 40,910 citizens were injured," AFAD said.

Also, the Anadolu news agency reported at least 2,530 dead and 4,645 wounded in the regions of Syria.

Reuters reports that there were 5894 dead and 34,810 injured in Turkey, as well as more than 1900 victims of the earthquake in Syria at the end of the day on February 7.

Bad weather complicates search and rescue operations.

As of the morning of February 7, the death toll from the devastating earthquake in southern Turkey reached 2,921, and another 15,834 people were injured, Anadolu reported with reference to the head of the Turkish Emergency Management Agency (AFAD) Yunus Cesar,

Earlier, Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay said that a total of 7,840 people had been rescued from the rubble. He added that 338,000 people were accommodated in dormitories, universities and shelters.

According to Al Jazeera, as a result of the earthquake in Syria, the number of dead has increased to 1,293 people, and 3,411 are also known to be injured.

• Recall, on February 6, two earthquakes with a magnitude of more than seven points occurred in southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria within a day (at 04:17 local time - 7.7 points and at 13:24 - 7.6 points).

• According to WHO estimates, the number of victims of the earthquake could increase eightfold within a week.