Death toll from the highly effective earthquakes in southern Türkiye on Feb. 6 has risen to 46,104, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan mentioned on Monday.
“Today, as we leave behind the fourth week since the earthquakes, we more clearly see the magnitude of the disaster we experienced and feel the pain of our losses more deeply,” Recep Tayyip Erdoğan mentioned after a Cabinet assembly within the capital Ankara.
On Feb. 6, the magnitude 7.7 and seven.6 quakes struck 11 provinces — Adana, Adiyaman, Diyarbakir, Elazig, Hatay, Gaziantep, Kahramanmaras, Kilis, Malatya, Osmaniye, and Sanliurfa. More than 13.5 million folks in Türkiye have been affected by the devastating quakes, in addition to many others in northwestern Syria.
“Our aim is to start the construction of 244,000 houses and 75,000 village homes in the next two months,” Erdogan mentioned, including that the development of twenty-two,000 of those had already begun.
A complete of 488,000 new properties will probably be constructed for catastrophe victims within the quake-hit areas inside a yr, he mentioned.
The president additionally mentioned that 100,000 containers can be arrange inside two months within the area for 500,000 earthquake victims to stay in higher situations.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
