At least one person died and several dozen were injured this Monday as a result of earthquake magnitude 5.6 in eastern Turkey, the state disaster management agency said.
Epicenter shaking was in Esilyurtovsky districtin the province of MalatyaFebruary 6 has already been hit by a massive earthquake that killed more than 44,000 people in Turkey and thousands in neighboring Syria.
“A citizen died. 69 people were injured,” the report said. Yunus Sezerhead of the Office of Disaster and Emergency Management (AFAD), on television.
Several buildings, already damaged by the earthquake in early February, collapsed on Monday as a result of a new tremor. FAD.
The mayor of the city of Esilyurt announced on television Habertürk that the father and his daughter, who returned home for personal belongings, were among the rubble of a collapsed building.
Turkish authorities They opened a criminal investigation into the collapse of thousands of buildings, which killed tens of thousands of people and left millions homeless.
FAD it registered nearly 10,000 aftershocks since the February 6 shock. Some 173,000 buildings were affected by the earthquake, according to local press reports.
About 865,000 people live in tents after earthquakes
About 865,000 people are currently in tents in southern Turkey, where earthquakes on the 6th caused 139,000 buildings to collapse and left at least 42,130 people dead and 115,000 injured, authorities said on Tuesday.
Of the 865,000 people currently living in tents, another 23,500 received prefabricated houses and 376,000 who are housed in institutions of the Ministry of Education or Sports, the president explained. TurkeyRecep Tayyip Erdogan.
The head of state noted that the destroyed buildings amount to almost half a million houses or offices.
Yesterday’s two new quakes, centered in the Mediterranean province of Hatay, the most tectonically devastated, highlighted the need for more stores so that no one could seek shelter in homes without collapsing, local authorities have warned.
erdogan He pointed out that 2.5 million people in the region receive daily food from the Red Crescent, and promised to rebuild not only the centers of the affected cities, but also 70,000 houses in rural municipalities within a year.
Hatay, with 14,000 village houses to be rebuilt, and Kahramanmaras, with 12,000 houses, are the provinces hardest hit by the aftershocks.
(According to EFE and AFP)
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