International Desk: The death toll across Turkey and Syria following Monday’s catastrophic earthquake reached at least 36,217, reports CNN.

The death toll in Turkey has reached 31,643, Turkish Emergency Coordination Center SAKOM said Monday.

The confirmed death toll in Syria is 4,574. That number includes more than 3,160 in opposition-held parts of northwestern Syria, according to the health ministry of the Salvation Government governance authority.

The Syrian death toll also includes 1,414 deaths in government-controlled parts of Syria, according to state news agency SANA.

Reuters reported, in Syria, the disaster hit hardest in the rebel-held northwest, leaving homeless yet again many people who had already been displaced several times by a decade-old civil war. The region has received little aid compared with government-held areas.

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“What is the most striking here, is even in Aleppo, which has suffered so much these many years, this moment, that moment… was about the worst that these people have experienced,” the UN’s Griffiths said.