Death toll for Turkey earthquake rises to 2921

The death toll in Turkey from a massive 7.8-magnitude earthquake rose to 2,921, the country’s relief agency AFAD announced Tuesday.

The new count brings the confirmed death toll in Turkey and neighboring Syria to 4,365, after a quake considered to be the strongest to hit the region in nearly a century. The earthquake rocked large parts of Turkey and neighboring Syria in the pre-dawn hours of Monday.