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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 Türkiye have been left homeless by the recent earth­quakes and some 500,000 housing units in the country will have to be rebuilt.
23 Feb 2023 18:40
Quakes Leave 1.5M People Homeless In Turkiye:UN
People are seen near the rubble of a destroyed building in the quake-hit city of Adiyaman, Turkiye, on February 20, 2023. Photo: Xinhua

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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