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Turkey death toll tops 35,000 to become deadliest in modern history
14 February 2023 17:23 GMT
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Tuesday that the death toll from last week's earthquake has risen to at least 35,418 people. He added that the number of injuries has risen to at least 105,505.
The new toll makes it the deadliest quake to hit the country in modern Turkish history.
It has surpassed the total number of people killed in the 1939 earthquake in the Erzincan province of eastern Turkey, which was 32,968, according to the Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute at Bogazici University in Turkey.
Erdogan said the quakes were "as big as atomic bombs".
Earthquake becomes deadliest in Turkey’s modern history
