“At the moment, 1,762 people have died, 12 thousand 68 have been injured,” Tatara quoted RIA Novosti as saying.
He noted that more than 6.8 thousand buildings collapsed.
Earlier it was reported that the death toll from the earthquake in Turkey reached 1651.
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.