The blazes on the island are now the country’s worst in terms of casualties for over a century, while authorities have warned that the effort to find and identify the dead is still in its early stages, as crews with cadaver dogs have covered just 3 per cent of the search area.

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    Just want to clarify that I reading this right. They’ve now counted as many as 93 killed, and search crews have only covered 3% of the search area?!

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        That’s awful. I saw the death toll rising, which is terrible in of itself. But to hear what it’s climbed to and they’ve only covered 3%…that’s devistating news!!

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    Given they were warned this would happen and did nothing to prevent it, and when it did happen they didn’t competently warn anyone, I hope they take seriously the task of gearing up for this happening again.

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    Don’t get me wrong, but this year’s 30k dead after earthquake that happened in Turkey was a massacre.

    In around '90 they had a lighter earthquake (15k died?), and the country started a tax/found for a special cases like this - in 2023 when people asked where’s the money, and the government said it’s not a good time for this unemphatic type of questions.

    Edit. I googled now, and it says 56k people died both in Turkey and Syria. Crazy