(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 8. President of
Türkiye Recep Tayyip Erdogan is meeting with earthquake-affected
citizens in the Pazarcik region of the country's Kahramanmaras
Province, which was the epicenter of the earthquake, trend reports.
Earlier, in Kahramanmaras, Erdogan visited places where tents
for the victims were set up.
The president is also expected to travel to Hatay, which was
also heavily damaged by the earthquake.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7 has hit southeastern
Türkiye on Feb. 6, 2023. The earthquake occurred at a depth of
seven kilometers in the Pazarcik region of Kahramanmaras Province.
The provinces of Hatay, Gaziantep, Kilis, Osmaniye, Malatya,
Adiyaman, Sanliurfa, Diyarbakir, Adana and Kahramanmaras were
subjected to severe destruction.
The quake's epicenter was located 26 km away from the city of
Gaziantep with a population of about 1.06 million.
Türkiye's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority said that
three more earthquakes with a magnitude of 6.4-6.6 rocked Gaziantep
province in south-eastern Türkiye. As a result of the earthquake
that hit Türkiye, strong tremors were also felt in Syria, Lebanon,
Egypt, and Cyprus.
As many as 8,574 people have been killed, and 49,133 have got
injured in the quake.
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