The number of people who died as a result of the earthquake in Turkey has reached 48 thousand

Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said today, Monday, that the death toll from last month’s strong earthquakes in Turkey has reached 48,448, and the authorities are rushing to build container towns to shelter the homeless from the disaster for a long time. duration.

Including those who died in Syria, the total number of dead has exceeded 54,000.

In a press conference held in Malatya, one of the provinces affected by the earthquake, Solu said that 6,660 foreigners, most of whom were Syrians, had died as a result of the earthquakes in Turkey, while the authorities were still trying to identify 1,615 victims.

The earthquake and the strong aftershocks caused more than 115 thousand people to be injured in Turkey and millions of people took shelter in tents or moved to other cities.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has promised to rebuild homes within a year, but it will take months for thousands of people to leave their tents or containers, leave their daily food queues and move to permanent residences.

Soylu said that the government intends to build 115 thousand 585 containers in 239 areas in the affected region to house the largest possible number of families. He said that so far 23 areas with 21 thousand containers have been built and 85 thousand people live there.