Wait a sec.
Twelve thousand!?
That’s a little high. Are the Muslims getting money for bodies?
Not trying to be callous.. just sorta familiar with how much Muslims love fellow humans and hate money... if you catch my drift.
These are densely populated areas.
The numbers are credible.
Note that this is the area of Antioch, the city founded circa 300 BC by the Seleucid ruler Antiochus and where the early Christians lived. It has been devastated by earthquakes throughout the past millenia of recorded history
Well, last go-round (1999) of a quake this big in Turkey killed at least 17,000 people, with some estimates up to 45,000 killed.