A Syrian family made up of seven people, including five children, and rescued after last week's earthquakes in southern Turkey, died this Friday due to a fire registered in the house to which they had moved after the destruction of his home in Gaziantep.
According to information collected by the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet, the Syrian family moved to the house of a relative in Konya after losing their home in the Turkish town of Nurdagi, one of the most affected by the earthquakes on February 6, which left more than 38,000 deaths in Turkey.
The family home, built with adobe, has registered a fire during the early hours of this Friday that has caused the collapse of the roof, an event that has resulted in the death of all of them. The deceased are a couple and their five children, between thirteen and four years old.
Regarding the tragic earthquakes registered in Turkey and Syria almost two weeks ago, the number of fatalities has risen this Saturday to 44,330, according to official balances.
The Turkish emergency service Afad estimated this Saturday at 40,642 fatalities from the earthquakes registered so far, the official Anadolu agency reported.
To these are added the 3,688 counted in Syria by the White Helmets rescue group, which operates in the northwestern opposition region, and the official Syrian agency SANA, which offers the count of all other areas under the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. .
However, these data are only a provisional balance, since there are still tens of thousands of bodies under the rubble and various estimates predict that the final balance will be around or exceed 100,000 deaths. The number of wounded rises to 122,757 (108,000 in Turkey and 14,757 in Syria).
