Quakes Leave 1.5M People Homeless In Turkiye:UN
Geneva: A United Nations Development Program (UNDP) official on Tuesday estimated that 1.5 million people in Turkiye have been left homeless by the recent earthquakes and some 500,000 housing units in the country will have to be rebuilt.
Louisa Vinton, the UNDP’s Türkiye resident representative, told an online press briefing that the country’s government had inspected around 70 percent of the buildings affected by the quakes. Of these, 412,000 housing units in 118,000 buildings have collapsed or need to be demolished completely.
She said that the amount of rubble that needed to be cleared was enormous, and that the UNDP was seeking to minimize the threat of hazardous waste.
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Source: Xinhua
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