follow up | The death toll from the earthquake in Turkey rose to 921, 371 in Syria, and a new 7.6-magnitude earthquake was recorded a while ago.

Weather of Arabia - Sinan Khalaf - Turkey announced, before the death toll from the devastating earthquake that struck the country at dawn today, rose to 921, in conjunction with the announcement of the Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management: a second earthquake, centered in Kahramanmaraş, south of the country, with a magnitude of 7.6, recorded 921 dead.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the total number of earthquake victims rose to 912 dead and 5383 injured, and added in a press conference about the earthquake: The earthquake is the largest disaster the country has witnessed since 1939.

He stressed that the earthquake left great losses, and we mobilized all means to overcome its effects, and that relief and rescue operations continue, and we cannot predict to what extent the number of victims will rise.

For its part, the Syrian Ministry of Health announced that the death toll from the earthquake had risen to 371, in addition to more than 2,000 injured so far.