Death toll in Turkey passes 12,000, total number of dead over 15,000

Turkey's death toll has surpassed 12,000 people, bringing up the total number of people killed to more than 15,000 across both that country and Syria.

Turkey's disaster management agency, Afad, has said the latest death toll was at least 12,391, while 62,914 others were injured, as reported by Turkey's state news agency Anadolu.

In Syria, the death toll had climbed to at least 2,950, according to the government of Bashar al-Assad and a rescue service operating in the rebel-held northwest.