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Death toll in Turkey-Syria earthquake crosses 24,000

As rescuers continued their round-the-clock search for survivors, the death toll from the earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria reached 24,000 people.

According to Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), there have now been 20,665 fatalities.

It stated that more than 166,000 people were involved in the rescue and relief efforts and that nearly 93,000 victims had been evacuated from the earthquake zone in southern Turkey.

More than 3,500 deaths have been reported in Syria in the meantime.

At least 870,000 people urgently needed food in the two countries after the quake, which has made up to 5.3 million people homeless in Syria alone, the UN warned.

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