According to the latest information, which was announced by Fuat Oktay, the vice president of Turkey, the death toll from the earthquake rose to 1,541 people, while 9,733 people were injured.
According to the data available to the Directorate for Emergency Situations (AFAD), it has been reported that 2,834 buildings have collapsed so far.
Due to the earthquake, Mahmut Ozer, the Minister of Education of Turkey, announced that classes throughout the country and in all educational institutions will be postponed until February 13. Also, the authorities announced that all sports competitions at the national level will be postponed.
As for airports in the earthquake-affected region, the airports in Malatya, Adana, Diyarbakir and Adiyaman are operational, while the airports in Gaziantep and Şanlıurfa are open only for relief flights.
Airports in Kahramanmaras and Hatay were closed due to damage.
A rescue operation is underway in much of southern Turkey and northern Syria after a powerful earthquake killed more than 2,300 people in both countries together.
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck near Gaziantep in the early hours of Monday morning, and a new earthquake of magnitude 7.5 occurred around 1:30 p.m. local time.
The state disaster agency says that around 1,500 people died and more than 5,300 were injured in Turkey alone after the first earthquake.
Syrian authorities reported 810 dead and more than 2,000 injured, reports AFP
Millions of people across Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus and Israel felt the tremor.
