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By Omayma othmani
Published: March 11, 2023
The Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Authority "AFAD" announced that the death toll from the earthquake disaster in the south of the country has reached 47,975 people as of Saturday evening.
AFAD President Yunus Sezer said in a press statement that 47,975 people, including 6,278 foreigners, died as a result of the earthquake that occurred on the dawn of February 6.
He pointed out the continuation of debris removal, tent installation, and the construction of prefabricated and permanent houses for the affected in the earthquake areas.
The Turkish provinces affected by the earthquake are Kahramanmaras, Gaziantep, Sanliurfa, Diyarbakir, Adana, Adiyaman, Osmaniye, Hatay, Kilis, Malatya, and Elazig.
Also on February 6, a double earthquake struck southern Turkey and northern Syria, with the first having a magnitude of 7.7 and the second 7.6, followed by thousands of violent aftershocks, resulting in the death of tens of thousands mostly in southern Turkey, in addition to massive destruction.
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