He body count of two earthquakes that struck Turkey on February 6 it has risen to 48,448, the Turkish interior minister said.
“The number of foreign citizens among those killed is 6,660. Most of them are our Syrian brothers,” Suleyman Soylu said Monday at a news conference in the central province of Malatya, which was also attended by the Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy.
Turkish authorities are still working on identifying 1,615 victims, Soylu added.
He said that debris removal is underway and that Turkey The demolition of badly damaged buildings will begin in the next phase, the Xinhua news agency reported.
Powerful earthquakes and large aftershocks centered in the south Turkey they have caused enormous property losses and left tens of thousands of people homeless.
More than 433,500 tents have been set up in the earthquake-affected provinces in southern Turkey, along with 21,000 containers for temporary shelter, the Minister said, noting that the country plans to set up a total of 115,585 containers.
More than two million people fled the quake-hit provinces in southern Turkey, official statistics show.
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