“At the moment, the death toll from the earthquake has risen to 1651,” RIA Novosti quotes the minister.
It is noted that 11 thousand 119 people were injured.
Earlier it was reported that the death toll from the earthquake in Turkey reached 1541 people.
Director of the Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Pyotr Shebalin commented on the earthquake in Turkey in an interview with NSN.