UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths said the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria could raise the death toll to 50,000 or more.. It is reported by Sky News.
As of February 12, the number of victims exceeded 28 thousand. Griffiths expects tens of thousands more deaths to be confirmed.
" Nature strikes back in a very brutal way,"
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Earlier, Turkish authorities arrested the developer of a large residential complex that was destroyed this week in a terrible earthquake..