“The number of victims of the earthquake in state-controlled areas is 1,414 dead and 2,349 injured,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
At the same time, the World Health Organization earlier stated that about 8.5 thousand people died as a result of the earthquake in Syria.
Seismologist Alexander Gulyaev, in an interview with FAN, recalled that aftershocks after an earthquake can last more than six months, but it is rather difficult to predict their occurrence.