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Rescue efforts continued today on eight buildings in the western Turkish city of Izmir, authorities said, while the number of the victims of the powerful earthquake Friday in the Aegean region grew to a total of 85 peopleReuters reported.
The Turkish authorities clarified that 91 people died in Turkey, all in Izmir provinceWhile Two teenagers died on the Greek island of Samos..
At present, medical care is provided to about 220 people, eight of whom are in intensive care units.
More than 70 people died and 950 were injured in earthquakes in Turkey
Rescue teams are working in badly affected buildings and are at risk.
More than 3,500 tents and 13,000 beds have been provided to provide temporary shelter, according to Turkey’s Emergency and Disaster Service (AFAD), according to which 994 people were injured in the earthquake on Friday, with 774 people discharged from hospitals, said AFAD.
Turkey is in an extremely seismic zone. In 1999, two powerful earthquakes killed 18,000 people in northwestern Turkey.
The earthquake on Friday, which according to the Kandili Institute in Istanbul has a magnitude of 6.9 on the Richter scale, had its epicenter in the Aegean Sea, northeast of the island. Only with.
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Very strong earthquake in Greece and Turkey, there are victims
Off the coast of Turkey in the Izmir region
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