The death counter has not stopped spinning in Turkey and Syria since a devastating earthquake shook their land at dawn last Monday. The death toll has risen to 16,000 in both countries amid official warnings that the number will rise. Rescuers find new survivors under the rubble, despite fading hope, 3 days after the devastating earthquake. Rescuers race against time to pull out possible survivors trapped under the rubble of thousands of buildings that collapsed as a result of the earthquake.
In Turkey, the Department of Disaster Management and Emergencies announced that the death toll from the earthquake had risen to more than 12,873, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the death toll from the earthquake in Syria had risen to 3,508.
More than 62,000 people were affected by the 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Turkey and more than 5,000 in Syria.
