in the same region, had risen to eight by Tuesday, authorities and media said. Turkey's disaster management authority said six people were killed and 294 others were injured with 18 in critical condition after Monday's 6.4-magnitude quake. In Syria, a woman and a girl died as a result of panic during the earthquake in the provinces of Hama and Tartus, pro-government media outlets said.
A man walks past destroyed buildings in Antakya, southeast Turkey, Feb. 21, 2023, as the death toll in Turkey and Syria rose to eight after a new and powerful earthquake that struck two weeks after devastating temblors killed nearly 45,000 people in the same region.Hatay was one of the worst-hit provinces in Turkey in the magnitude 7.8 quake that struck on Feb. 6. Thousands of buildings were destroyed in the province and Monday's quake further damaged buildings.
Officials have warned quake victims to not go into the remains of their homes, but people have done so to retrieve what they can. They were caught up in the new quake. The majority of deaths in the massive Feb. 6 quake, which was followed by a 7.5 temblor nine hours later, were in Turkey with at least 41,156 people killed. The epicenter was in southern Kahramanmaras province. Authorities said more than 110,000 buildings across 11 quake-hit Turkish provinces were either destroyed or so severely damaged that they need to be torn down.
So sad.
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And since both Turkey and Syria are run by corrupt Islamofascist megalomaniacs who spend all their time and political capital in retaining power, there's no effort at all put to governmental duties such as building codes and building code enforcement. Most deaths preventable.