THE number of people killed by the earthquakes that hit Turkey on last month rose to above 45,000, Sputnik reported, quoting the Turkish Interior Ministry today.

“According to the latest data, 45,089 citizens were killed by the earthquakes, over 1.9 million citizens were evacuated from the disaster zone,” the official statement said.

Those who lost their homes are accommodated in more than 358,000 tents and container houses, the statement read.

The magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 earthquakes occurred at a nine-hour interval in Turkey on February 6 where country’s south-eastern was badly hit. Underground shocks followed by hundreds of aftershocks were felt in Turkey’s 11 provinces and neighbouring states, with Syria the most affected. – Bernama, March 1, 2023.