The Syrian household had moved to the central area of Konya from the southeastern Turkish metropolis of Nurdagi, which was badly hit by the February 6 quakes.
A Syrian household of seven, together with 5 youngsters, has been killed in a hearth that struck a Turkish house they moved to after surviving final week’s earthquake, native media reported.
Turkey’s state-owned Anadolu Company reported citing a written assertion from Konya Chief Public Prosecutor’s Workplace that the single-storey home, wherein 14 folks lived, caught fireplace on Friday. Seven folks injured within the incident have been receiving remedy, it mentioned.
Anadolu reported the household had moved to the central area of Konya just some days in the past from the southeastern Turkish metropolis of Nurdagi in Gaziantep province, which was severely hit by the February 6 quakes.
“The mandatory investigations have been carried out on the scene and a committee of specialists was appointed,” the assertion mentioned.
“We noticed the hearth however we couldn't intervene. A lady was rescued from the window,” resident Muhsin Cakir informed Anadolu.
The 5 youngsters who died have been aged between 4 and 13, Anadolu mentioned. Turkey is house to almost 4 million Syrians.
Lots of them dwell in southeastern areas devastated by final week’s catastrophe. The demise toll from the quakes has surpassed 43,000 throughout southeastern Turkey and Syria.
Gaziantep, one in every of southern Turkey’s huge cities, has a inhabitants of just about two million, and practically one-third of them are Syrian refugees who fled the conflict within the Arab nation that began in 2011.
On Thursday, the United Nations appealed for greater than $1bn in funds for the earthquake aid operation in Turkey, simply two days after an attraction for $400m for quake-hit Syria.
Whereas rescue efforts have continued in Turkey, the variety of folks rescued each day has decreased considerably.
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