The earthquakes that hit Turkey on February 6 and 20 killed 44,218 people and left about two million people homeless, according to a new balance sheet released this Saturday by Turkish authorities.
The previous balance indicated 43,556 deaths.
According to information from the Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Agency (AFAD), cited by international agencies, about two million people were left homeless and forced to spend the night in tents, in prefabricated houses, in hotels or hostels.
AFAD explained that this number includes not only people who continue to live in the areas hit by the earthquakes, but also those who took refuge in other regions of the country.
The same source explained that 528,000 people were evacuated from the 11 Turkish provinces hit by the earthquakes, with 335,000 tents and 130 temporary prefabricated houses in these areas.
So far, Turkey’s Ministry of Urban Planning has inspected 1.3 million buildings and determined that 173,000 homes were uninhabitable and required immediate demolition.
The number of people displaced by the earthquakes is about one million, according to AFAD.
The total death toll in Syria, also affected by these earthquakes, has already exceeded 5,900, according to the same source, and 11,000 people were injured.
Turkish authorities have indicated that the bodies of 2,000 Syrians have been identified in the border area between Turkey and Syria.
The earthquakes of February 6, with the epicenter on Turkish territory, and which were followed by several aftershocks, some of them of high intensity, caused at least 50,000 deaths in southern Turkey and northwestern Syria, figures that are still preliminary
Source: DN
