Syrian Ministry of Health: the death toll in the country as a result of the earthquake has risen to 1250

This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Syrian Ministry of Health.

“Health Minister Hassan Mohammed al-Gabash announced during his trip (to Latakia. -

) an increase in the death toll to 1250 and injured to 2054,” the statement said.

Earlier, the head of the delegation of the International Federation of the Red Cross in Syria, Mads Brinch Hansen, said that more than 1.5 thousand people were killed and more than 3.5 thousand were injured as a result of the earthquake in Syria.

Major General Oleg Yegorov, deputy head of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties in the SAR, said that the Russian military, during search and rescue operations after the earthquake in Syria, removed 42 people from the rubble, work continues.