The toll, still provisional, exceeds 35,000 dead

35.225. This is the known number of people who died in the violent earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria on February 6, according to the latest official provisional reports, dating from Monday morning.

The 7.8 magnitude earthquake killed 31,643 people in southern Turkey, Afad, Turkey’s public disaster management agency, said on Monday, while authorities counted 3,581 dead in Syria. The UN said on Sunday that the toll could still “double”.

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