Nearly 60,000 killed in 2023 Turkey, Syria quake: new toll

Ankara (AFP) Feb 2, 2024

Last year's massive earthquake in southeastern Turkey killed 53,537 people in the country, the interior minister said Friday, bringing the overall death toll to nearly 60,000. The government in neighbouring Syria has said 1,414 people died in areas under its control in the predawn disaster on February 6, 2023. Turkish-backed officials in northern Syria have put the toll in rebel-held reg