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What is the Actual Death Toll in Turkey Earthquake? UN Says Number of Dead Could Go Beyond 50,000

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The official death toll as of now is around 28,000 but the rescue and search teams say they have not started counting the dead yet.
Nearly a week after devastating earthquakes flattened towns across southern Turkey and Syria, rescue operation is an unfinished business. Tens of thousands of rescuers workers are at the sites of building collapses, pulling out survivors from under the rubble.
The official death toll as of now is around 28,000 but the rescue and search teams say they have not started counting the dead yet. Last week’s earthquake has turned out to be the biggest earthquake the quake-prone nation witnessed in about a century.
According to the United Nations officials monitoring the developments, the actual death toll will go steeply higher. The toll will „double or more“ from the current level of 28,000, UN relief chief Martin Griffiths has said. „I think it is difficult to estimate precisely as we need to get under the rubble but I’m sure it will double or more,“ Griffiths told Sky News after inspecting the rescue operations in the southern city of Kahramanmaras, which was the epicentre of the magnitude 7.

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