Five Syrian children and their parents died on Friday in a fire at the house where they lived in Turkey, where they had moved after the February 6 earthquake, local press reported.
The family moved to the central Konya region of the city of Nurdagi in southeastern Turkey, which was hit hard by the earthquake, to stay with relatives.
“We saw the fire but could not intervene. A girl was saved through the window,” Muhsin Cakir, a resident of the area, told the Turkish news agency Anadolu.
The five deceased children were between the ages of 4 and 13, according to Anadolu. It is not yet clear whether the rescued girl belonged to the same family.
Nearly four million Syrians live in Turkey. Many of them live in the earthquake-ravaged southeastern regions.
The magnitude 7.8 earthquake killed more than 41,000 people in Turkey and Syria, making it the region’s deadliest natural disaster in centuries.
Source: DN
