Baku/12.03.23/Turan: The death toll during a series of earthquakes in Turkiye in February reached 48 thousand people. This was stated on March 12 at a meeting of the Coordinating Council for the Elimination of the Consequences of the Disaster in the city of Hatay said the president of the country Erdogan.
According to him, the number of wounded exceeded 115,000 people, the Anadolu agency reported.
50,000 buildings were destroyed,” he said. Earthquake damage assessment work continues. At the moment, it is planned to build 183,000 apartments and 15,000 rural houses in Khatai. 15,785 apartments will be built in Kyrykhan, he said.
The head of state also said that 426,000 tents have been set up in the regions affected by the February earthquakes, and 100,000 container houses will be set up in the next 2 months.
Recall that on February 6, two earthquakes of magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 occurred in the southeast of Turkiye, which caused great damage to 13 provinces of Turkiye. -02D-
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