Türkiye earthquake death toll exceeds 7,800... 23 million victims The search and rescue of survivors continued for the second night… WHO said "Deaths will rise by thousands"Relief is delayed due to heavy snow and road damage.Due to concerns about continuing earthquakes and building collapses, victims of the disaster are sleeping in the cold. https://n.news.naver.com/mnews/article/001/0013743706?sid=104 Seoul = Yonhap News) Correspondent Lim Hwa-seop and Kim Ji-yeon = The death toll from the earthquake that struck Türkiye and Syria exceeded 7,800. Rescue authorities and private relief organizations are continuing their desperate search and rescue of survivors even on the night of the 7th (local time), the second day after the earthquake, amid cold and bad weather that fluctuates around the zero point. The 7.8 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes that shook the region the previous day killed 5,894 people and injured more than 34,000 in Türkiye, according to Reuters and AFP. At least 1,932 people have been confirmed dead in Syria. This is only a count of the confirmed deaths so far while rescue is in progress, and it is expected that more will increase in the future. The World Health Organization (WHO) predicted that the death toll from the earthquake could exceed 20,000, saying that the death toll would continue to rise by the thousands. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) also feared that more than 10,000 deaths could come out. UNICEF believes thousands of children may have died. Citing the estimates of the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC), a public-private joint disaster management organization in the United States, the WHO estimated that 23 million people were affected by the earthquake, according to the New York Times (NYT), an American daily. According to the Türkiye authorities, about 13.5 million people were displaced along a distance of about 450 km from Adana in the west to Diyabakir in the east and about 300 km from Maltaya in the north to Hatay in the south. In addition, nearly 6,000 buildings were destroyed. https://n.news.naver.com/mnews/article/001/0013743706?sid=104 Syrian authorities said the deaths were also reported in Hama, about 250 kilometers from the epicenter. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Türkiye declared a state of emergency for three months in 10 of the 81 provinces most affected by the earthquake. Authorities in Türkiye said that 8,000 people were rescued from the rubble of collapsed buildings, and 380,000 people were staying in temporary accommodations provided by the government. Entering the second night since the quake, rescue teams are mobilizing available resources to continue search and rescue operations to find survivors. However, roads destroyed by the earthquake and bad weather, such as heavy snowfall, have delayed rescue and relief work, and concerns are growing that the 'golden time' of survivors may be shortened due to the cold. In particular, UN aid has not been delivered to areas occupied by rebels in Syria, UN spokesman Stephan Dujarric said. This is because the road leading to the Bab al-Hawa checkpoint, the only delivery route, was destroyed by the earthquake. The NYT quoted an official from the WHO European Office as saying, "There is a risk of additional earthquakes such as aftershocks and the collapse of damaged buildings, so many victims are living a homeless life instead of staying inside buildings such as houses despite the strong wind." "It's a race against time," said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the WHO. https://n.news.naver.com/mnews/article/001/0013743706?sid=104 Catherine Smallwood, WHO's senior emergency planning officer for Europe, predicted that "the number of deaths and injuries will rise sharply in the coming weeks, and the number of deaths could rise eight times from earlier figures." Residents are expressing their anger and despair at the slow and insufficient response of the authorities. “There is not a single person here. We are snowing and there is no house, nothing,” Murat Alinak, a Maltaya resident whose house has collapsed and whose relatives are missing, told Reuters. “What do I do? Where do I go? " he lamented. "I woke up and it was hell," said Osman Khan Taninmis, a resident of Hatay province, which was the worst hit by the earthquake in Turkey by AP His family was buried under the rubble of a building and have not yet been rescued. The number of deaths known so far in Hatay province is 1,647, the highest among Turkish provinces. In the small Syrian town of Zinderis, a crying newborn baby girl was found by residents with an umbilical cord attached to her dead mother. In the small Syrian town of Zinderis, a crying newborn baby girl was found by residents with an umbilical cord attached to her dead mother. https://n.news.naver.com/mnews/article/001/0013743706?sid=104 Other than the baby, who was rescued and is being treated in an incubator, all other family members died in the building collapse, relatives told the Associated Press. "The later people are found under the ruins, the lower their chances of survival," said Rick Brennan, head of disaster response for the WHO East Mediterranean Region, in an interview with the NYT. . All right reserved : https://n.news.naver.com/mnews/article/001/0013743706?sid=104
