Death toll from earthquake in Turkish city of Izmir rises to 79

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The death toll from the strong earthquake that struck  the Aegean last Friday, off the western Turkish city of Izmir, rose to 79, at a time when rescue efforts resumed this morning in eight buildings that were destroyed and damaged by the earthquake.

Reuters quoted the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency

(AFAD)  in Turkey  as saying that 79 people, all in Izmir, were killed, while two young men were killed on the Greek island of Samos due to  the earthquake, indicating that 962 people were injured.

AFAD reported on Sunday  that the region has witnessed 850 aftershocks, 40 of them above 4 degrees, since the earthquake, which measured 7 in magnitude on the Richter scale.

 

Inas Abdulkareem

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