As the search and rescue effort for buried survivors of the Feb. 6 earthquake started to wind down in Turkiye, demolition teams have moved in to clear the mounds of rubble left by the worst disaster in modern Turkish history.
HATAY MAYOR SAYS 21,000 DIED IN PROVINCE
Savas added that there were 24,000 injured people across the province, which lies between Syria and the Mediterranean Sea.The number of confirmed deaths in Turkey due to the earthquake has risen to 40,689, Yunus Sezer, head of the country's disaster agency AFAD, said. The increase was 47 more than the figure given on Saturday evening and a much smaller increase then previous updates.
The new figure takes the combined death toll in Turkiye and Syria to 44,377. The UN has said the full scope of the deaths in Syria may take time to determine.Turkiye's disaster management said some 6,040 aftershocks hit the 11 provinces that form the disaster zone declared by the government in the days following the initial quake.
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