by Middle East Eye News Staff
- Two quakes hit measuring 7.8 and 7.5
- Many countries send offers of assistance
- Temperatures dropping to freezing
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The death toll continues to climb as more deaths are reported in Syria. At least 1,444 people were killed in Syria and about 3,500 injured, according to figures from the Bashar al-Assad government and rescue workers in the rebel-held northwestern region of the country.
The latest figures in Turkey from the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (Afad) have the death toll at 2,316.
The death toll from the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria has now risen to more than 3,000 people.
In Turkey, the latest death toll is 2,316 people, according to Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (Afad), and 13,293 people were recorded as injured. So far, 7,340 people were taken out of the rubble alive.
In Syria, at least 1,293 people were killed, according to figures from Bashar al-Assad’s government and rescue workers in the rebel-held northwestern region.
Monday’s casualties already mark the highest death toll from an earthquake in Turkey since 1999, when a tremor of similar magnitude devastated the heavily populated eastern Marmara Sea region near Istanbul, killing more than 17,000…