Earthquake in Turkey kills more than 50,000

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Recep Tayyip Erdogan said this on Monday at an international donor conference in Brussels. Nearly 300,000 buildings were severely damaged.

On February 6, two magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 earthquakes shook southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria. About 20 million people in the country are affected by the effects, according to the Turkish government. The catastrophe had sparked a heated debate about failures in crisis management and post-crisis management. The United Nations estimates that about 8.8 million people will be affected in Syria. About 6,800 people have died in the quakes across Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

In Turkey alone, 3.7 million people have been evacuated from the region since the disaster, the government said, and nearly two million people are currently living in tents. In the past week, at least 18 people have also been killed by flooding in the region also hit by the quake. Heavy rain continues in some places. People from the region keep coming forward and calling for help as supplies are getting scarce.

There is only scant information about the situation from the civil war country of Syria.

(SDA)

Source: Blick