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Death toll rises to 25,000 after earthquake in Turkey , reported the EFE agency. With this new count, the number of wounded rose to 85,380 in both countries. In the counting in Syria, little has changed in relation to the figures presented the day before, both by the government of President Bashar al-Assad and by the White Helmets rescue group, which operates in areas of opposition to the regime in the northwest of the country. Syria is 3,553, of which 2,166 were registered in the rebel zones. In Turkey, despite the rescue teams continuing to work, in the last 24 hours only 67 people were found alive, including a two-month-old baby eses, while the number of corpses recovered under the rubble is growing. More than 13 million people lived in the affected area on Turkish soil in ten provinces and it is feared that thousands of victims are still found under the rubble. Among the survivors, the situation is very complicated. One million people were displaced – according to official data – in a large area of ​​southeastern Turkish territory, which is larger than a country like Portugal. On the other hand, in Syria, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that more than five million of people were affected across the country by the earthquakes, while more than 300,000 “were displaced” in just two of the provinces hit by the earthquakes. , after finding no signs of life under the rubble since Thursday. In these areas, a convoy with humanitarian aid from the United Nations arrived today through a border crossing with Turkey, in the third shipment sent since the earthquake on Monday and the first with specific supplies for those affected by the earthquake. The first UN humanitarian aid convoy arrived in northwest Syria last Thursday, almost four days s after the earthquakes that devastated the region.Syria and Turkey were hit, in the early hours of Monday, by an earthquake of magnitude 7.8 on the Richter scale, which was followed by several aftershocks, one of which was of magnitude 7 ,5. (RM/NMinuto)Source:Rádio Moçambique Online

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