Officials warn death toll will likely rise as search and rescue operations continue
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.
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