{"id":234074,"date":"2023-02-08T10:25:38","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T04:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=234074"},"modified":"2023-02-08T10:25:38","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T04:55:38","slug":"over-25000-dead-says-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/over-25000-dead-says-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 25000 dead says WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Turkey 5,894 people are confirmed to have been killed, while 1,932 people have died in Syria for a combined total of 7,826 fatalities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The death toll could rise by 8 times said WHO as they are finding dead bodies under the rubbel of buildings collapased due to earth quakes in Syria and Turkey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are fears that the toll will rise inexorably, with World Health Organization officials estimating up to 25,000 may have died.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">About 12 hours later, a second powerful tremor hit further north.Rescuers have been combing through mountains of rubble in freezing and snowy conditions to find survivors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Countries around the world are sending support to help the rescue efforts, including specialist teams, sniffer dogs and equipment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US Geological Survey said the 7.8 magnitude tremor struck at 04:17 local time (01:17 GMT) at a depth of 17.9km (11 miles) near the city of Gaziantep.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Seismologists said the first quake was one of the largest ever recorded in Turkey. Survivors said it took two minutes for the shaking to stop.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Turkey 5,894 people are confirmed to have been killed, while 1,932 people have died in Syria for a combined total of 7,826 fatalities. The death toll could rise by 8 times said WHO as they are finding dead bodies under the rubbel of buildings collapased due to earth quakes in Syria and Turkey. There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":234075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[17372,110651,60415],"class_list":["post-234074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nri","category-top-stories","tag-earth-quake","tag-turkey-earthquake","tag-who"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/earth-quake.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}