11 minutes agoEarthquake damage, over 50,000 buildings must collapse in Turkey
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)Turkey's Environment, Urban Planning and Climate Change Minister Murat Kurum confirmed that there are 50.576 buildings damaged by the earthquake, which must be destroyed immediately. According to the results of the damage assessment, the government has inspected 387,346 buildings in the country's 10 provinces and 279,655 of them are easily damaged or [...]
He stressed that the operation to undermine damaged new residences would start soon, meanwhile pledged that the new ones would be safer.
“We will quickly destroy what needs to be destroyed and build secure building”, the minister was quoted as saying next.
There are 35,418 already reported deaths, which exceeded Erzincan's massive earthquake in 1939, which killed about 33,000 people. Turkey's President Recep Tayip Erdogan also said there is a need for stricter implementation of construction regulations in the country. In Syria the death toll reached 5,814, according to the latest figures, and the total number in both countries is over 41,000 lives lost.
