The District Mayor of Nurdağı district in Türkiye’s Gaziantep province was arrested as a part of an earthquake-linked investigation on Saturday.
District Mayor Ökkeş Kavak was detained as a part of a probe launched by the Islahiye Prosecutor’s Office, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported.
He was the contractor of two buildings that had been destroyed within the current Kahramanmaraş-centered earthquakes, the report stated. He was delivered to the courthouse after finishing routine procedures on the police headquarters, and was arrested by the court docket.
Shortly after the earthquakes, the Justice Ministry instructed the prosecutor’s places of work, in 10 provinces affected by two main earthquakes in Türkiye’s southeast, to determine “Earthquake Crimes Investigation Departments.”
At least 44,000 folks had been killed, tens of 1000’s of others had been injured within the magnitude 7.7 and seven.6 earthquakes, which destroyed 1000’s of buildings in 10 provinces.
Türkiye is situated on the planet’s most seismically lively zones as it’s located on a number of lively fault traces, with probably the most probably devastating being the Northern Anatolia Fault (NAF), the assembly level of the Anatolian and Eurasian tectonic plates. It has suffered devastating earthquakes previously, together with the magnitude 7.4 magnitude earthquake in Gölcük in 1999 which killed greater than 17,000 folks within the larger area.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
