According to UN relief chief Martin Griffiths, the death toll from the massive earthquake in Turkey and Syria will “double or more” from its current level of 28,000 people. Martin Griffiths, who arrived in Turkey’s southern city of Kahramanmaras, the epicentre of the first earthquake, said, “I think it’s difficult to estimate precisely because we need to get under the rubble, but I’m sure it will double or more.”
In an interview with Sky News on Saturday, he said of the death toll, “I think it’s difficult to estimate precisely because we need to get under the rubble, but I’m sure it’ll double or more.”
“We haven’t even begun to count the dead,” he said.
According to officials and medics, 24,617 people were killed in Turkey and 3,574 were killed in Syria. The confirmed total is now 28,191.
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According to state media, police in Turkey’s earthquake-ravaged south-eastern provinces of Sanliurfa and Gaziantep detained more than 100 people after multiple buildings collapsed.
Contractors are among those detained, according to the DHA news agency. Around 6,000 buildings collapsed in the region’s devastating earthquakes on Monday, igniting public outrage over poor housing quality.
More people are expected to be detained by police after Turkey’s Vice President Fuat Oktay announced on Saturday that prosecutors had issued 113 arrest warrants in connection with the buildings.
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According to the agency, one of those detained was a contractor for a collapsed building in Gaziantep who was apprehended by police in Istanbul.
Prosecutors have launched a wave of investigations in affected provinces, including Kahramanmaras. The justice ministry has directed prosecutors to establish “earthquake crimes investigation offices” in each of the ten provinces.
On Friday, Turkish police apprehended a contractor after the high-rise luxury flats with which he was associated collapsed in Hatay province.
