Türkiye added six extra provinces that suffered harm within the Feb. 6 earthquakes to the quake catastrophe zone, the nation’s catastrophe company mentioned on Monday.
In an announcement, the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) mentioned settlements the place broken buildings had been discovered within the provinces of Bingol, Kayseri, Mardin, Tunceli, Nigde, and Batman had been additionally added to the zone, qualifying them to obtain sure varieties of governmental help.
Damage evaluation in these provinces discovered that there have been buildings that had been barely, reasonably, or closely broken, it mentioned.
Following the lethal Feb. 6 earthquakes in southern Türkiye, 11 provinces-Adana, Adiyaman, Diyarbakir, Elazig, Hatay, Gaziantep, Kahramanmaras, Kilis, Malatya, Osmaniye, and Sanliurfa-along with the Gurun district within the Sivas province, had been accepted as catastrophe zones because of the destruction and lack of life, it added.
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
