The demise toll from highly effective earthquakes that struck southern Türkiye final month has risen to 48,448, the nation’s inside minister mentioned on Monday.
“6,660 of the dead were foreign nationals,” Süleyman Soylu mentioned at a news convention in quake-hit Malatya province together with Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy.
Debris removing work continues, he added.
On Feb. 6, the magnitude 7.7 and seven.6 quakes struck 11 provinces — Adana, Adıyaman, Diyarbakır, Elazığ, Hatay, Gaziantep, Kahramanmaraş, Kilis, Malatya, Osmaniye, and Şanlıurfa.
More than 13.5 million individuals in Türkiye have been affected by the devastating quakes, in addition to many others in northern Syria.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
