Feb. 10 (UPI) -- The death toll from Monday's devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria on Friday swelled to more than 23,000 with another 80,000 injured.
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called the damage he saw in southern Turkey on Thursday the "disaster of the century." Officials said at least 20,213 have died in Turkey with another 75,523 injured. In Syria, 3,384 have died in numbers reported by government officials and rebel-held territories. They said 5,245 have been injured.