The Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) announced the stoppage of search and rescue efforts at 7 buildings in Amed that had been demolished by the 7.8 and 7.7 magnitude earthquakes that struck 10 provinces in Turkey and North Kurdistan on February 6 and claimed tens of thousands of lives.

According to Amed (Diyarbakır) Urban Protection and Solidarity Platform, 409 people were killed and 902 others injured under the rubble of 7 buildings.

AFAD reported on Friday evening that 39,672 people had been killed by the earthquakes. According to AFAD, there were more than 4,700 aftershocks, some of them also in Syria. It is considered certain that the number of dead will continue to rise.

Twelve days after the violent earthquakes in the border region between Turkey and Syria, emergency forces are still recovering many bodies from the rubble. More than 45,000 dead have been counted in both countries so far. The World Health Organisation (WHO) reported at least 5,900 deaths in Syria.

There are also reports of late rescues of trapped people. In the southern Turkish border province of Hatay, a Kyrgyz search and rescue team freed two adults and a child after 296 hours. A video shows two adults and a child being carried on stretchers from the rubble of an apartment building in the district of Antakya.

Meanwhile, on social media, many people are sharing wanted ads in the hope of finding their loved ones in hospitals. More than 108,000 people were injured in the quakes in Turkey alone, and around 13,000 are still being treated in hospitals. Some of them, however, cannot be identified. In many places, the infrastructure for health care was also severely damaged.