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Death toll from Türkiye earthquakes rises to 48,448
The death toll from
powerful earthquakes that struck southern Türkiye last month has risen to
48,448, the country’s interior minister said on Monday.
"6,660 of the
dead were foreign nationals, and most of them are our Syrian brothers,"
Soylu said at a news conference in quake-hit Malatya province along with
Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy.
Debris removal work
continues, he said, adding that 10,000 of a total of 56,000 damaged buildings
have now been demolished and their debris removed.
Türkiye continues to
meet the needs of housing for the quake victims, Soylu said.
He said that 21,000
containers were already set up and a total of 85,000 people are living there,
adding that the country plans to set up 115,585 containers in the quake-hit
region.
"The number of
tents distributed and set up by the Disaster and Emergency Management
Presidency (AFAD), and NGOs so far is 433,536 and the number of tent cities is
354," he added.
On Feb. 6, the
magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 quakes struck 11 provinces — Adana, Adiyaman, Diyarbakir,
Elazig, Hatay, Gaziantep, Kahramanmaras, Kilis, Malatya, Osmaniye, and
Sanliurfa.
More than 13.5
million people in Türkiye have been affected by the devastating quakes, as well
as many others in northern Syria.
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