Turkey, Syria quake death toll tops 25,000

The death toll in Turkey and Syria from the earthquake that struck five days ago has surpassed 25,000. Turkey’s president Saturday raised the death toll in his country to 21,848, while in Syria, the reported number of dead was 3,553 in government and rebel-held areas.
Some 80,104 people have been injured in Turkey alone, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, speaking in the city of Sanliurfa. A few survivors are still being pulled from the rubble, however, more than 130 hours after the quake.
Rescue teams in Turkey on Saturday pulled to safety a family of five who survived inside their collapsed home for five days following the major earthquake.
The total death toll in Syria’s northwestern rebel-held region has reached 2166 many of them women and children. The total dead in Syria was 3533, while in Turkey, officials counted 21043 dead through Saturday.