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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Saturday that the death toll from the devastating earthquake that struck Izmir, western Turkey, has risen to 26 yesterday and 885 were injured, 15 of whom are in serious condition. .
In a speech during a meeting of the Justice and Development Party branch in the eastern Van state, Erdogan confirmed that “26 people were killed and 885 others injured, including 15 in serious condition due to the Izmir earthquake.”
Erdogan added that “the state is with all its capabilities on the side of those affected by the earthquake” and said: “We will build new houses for our citizens and deliver them to them as soon as possible.”
An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale shook the Aegean region, causing human and material losses in Turkey and Greece.
In Greece, the earthquake destroyed buildings on the Greek island of Samos, as well as killing two students at a local school and wounding 8 other people.
Turkey’s Department of Emergency and Disaster Management announced on Friday that this earthquake shook the western state of Izmir, indicating that its epicenter was 17 km off the coast of the city of Safari Siege in the Aegean Sea already a depth of 16.54 km below the earth’s surface.
The earthquake caused dozens of buildings to collapse in Turkish Izmir, prompting the Turkish Defense Ministry to pay for rescue teams and military helicopters to participate in search operations.
Turkey’s Department of Emergency and Disaster Management announced on Saturday that a new earthquake measuring 5 on the Richter scale has occurred in the “Safari Hissar” district of Izmir, in the west of the country.
This region is known to have many earthquakes because it is located on a fault line between the continental Earth’s plates.
Source: Sputnik Agency
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