“5606 buildings collapsed,” Tatara quoted RIA Novosti as saying.

He urged citizens not to enter damaged buildings in regions with ongoing aftershocks.

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.