More than 50,000 people died in Turkey and Syria because of earthquake on February 6, according to a balance compiled Tuesday by the news agency AFP from various sources and reflecting an increase in the death toll in Syria.
In that country there were reported 5,951 deathsaccording to a balance drawn up on Tuesday based on information provided by various sources.
The latest Turkish balance to date, released on Sunday by Turkey’s public disaster management agency (Afad), is 44,374 dead.
Thus, the earthquake left a total of 50,325 dead.
The earthquake shook several regions in the north and west of Syria, a country fragmented after almost twelve years of conflict.
In government-controlled areas, the Syrian Ministry of Health recorded 1,414 deaths.
In regions beyond their control, bordering Turkey, local authorities reported 4,537 dead.
The person in charge of Health of those regions, Maram al Shaykhexplained to the AFP on Tuesday that he based his data on information collected in hospitals, medical centers, Civil Protection and local governmentswhich documented the burial of the victims without their having gone through the hospital.
Since February 6, he based his information on the balance published by the white helmets, the volunteer rescuers from the rebel areas, who made a count of the victims found by their teams.
On the other hand, the world Bank estimated this Monday in 34,000 million dollars the economic cost of damage caused to Turkey by the strong earthquakes, although he warned that the reconstruction could cost the double that figure.
“The report acknowledges that the costs of rescue and reconstruction will be much higher (than those caused by the damage), potentially twice as large, and that the associated Gross Domestic Product (GDP) losses will add to this cost,” the report explained. institution in a statement.
The development bank also warned that the successive aftershocks they will surely make these estimates grow.
Of the cataloged damage, a little more than half -some 18,000 million dollars– refer to damage caused to residential buildings. The World Bank estimates that around 1.25 million people they were temporarily homeless due to damage to their residences.
(With information from AFP and EFE)
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