Chinanews.com, February 12th, according to comprehensive foreign media reports, according to the latest news, the strong earthquake in Turkey has caused 28,192 deaths in Turkey and Syria.
As rescue efforts continued, Turkish authorities said on the 11th that rescuers rescued two women who had been trapped for 122 hours from the rubble of a collapsed building.
According to the "New York Post" report, Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay (Fuat Oktay) Oktay said at a news conference that the death toll due to the earthquake in Turkey has risen to 24,617.
In Syria, more than 3,500 people have died, and many others are still trapped under the rubble.
According to the latest news from CNN, the death toll from the earthquake in Turkey and Syria has reached 28,192.
According to the latest CNN report, the 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Turkey and multiple aftershocks have killed more than 28,000 people in Turkey and Syria.
The picture shows local time on February 7, in Gaziantep, Turkey, rescuers search for survivors among the rubble.
In the past 24 hours, Turkey has sent 31,000 rescuers to the affected area and rescued 67 people from the rubble, Fuat Oktay said.
He added that about 80,000 people were being treated in hospitals and 1.05 million people were homeless and in temporary shelters.
"Our main goal is to try to provide them with permanent housing within the next year, to ensure their return to normal life and to heal their pain as quickly as possible," Oktay said.
Currently, rescue teams are working around the clock to rescue buried survivors amidst the rubble of thousands of collapsed buildings.
Among the rescued survivors was a 70-year-old woman, Menekse Tabak, who was rescued in the southern city of Kahramanmaras, Turkey's Anadolu news agency reported.
Rescuers wrapped her in a blanket and carried her to an ambulance.
Another rescued was 55-year-old Masallah Cicek.
Rescuers pulled her out of the rubble of a collapsed building in Diyarbakir, the largest city in the southeast.
On the 11th local time, Turkish President Erdogan visited Turkey's Adiyaman Province. He admitted that the authorities should respond faster to the strong earthquake that occurred on the 6th.
"Although we now have the strongest search and rescue team in the world, the reality is that the search is not going as fast as we would like," Erdogan said.
According to reports, the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that occurred on the 6th and several powerful aftershocks across Turkey and Syria are the seventh deadliest natural disasters in this century. The earthquake in neighboring Iran killed 31,000 people.