Turkish catastrophe fund paid 0.4 mln to quake victims so far

Turkish catastrophe fund paid $340.4 mln to quake victims so far

The Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool (TCIP) paid 6.5 billion Turkish liras ($340.36 million) in declare funds thus far for victims associated to twin earthquakes final month.

On Feb. 6, magnitude 7.7 and seven.6 quakes struck 11 provinces — Adana, Adıyaman, Diyarbakır, Elazığ, Hatay, Gaziantep, Kahramanmaraş, Kiliş, Malatya, Osmaniye and Şanlıurfa.

More than 13.5 million individuals in Türkiye have been affected by the devastating quakes.

It added that the determine of broken buildings reached 416,021 as of Monday.

A complete of 21,850 buildings had been declared as collapsed, 27,836 with heavy harm, 36,129 with medium harm, and 330,206 with gentle harm.

Source: www.anews.com.tr