Turkish catastrophe fund paid $340.4 mln to quake victims so far
- Türkiye
- Anadolu Agency
- Published Date: 02:00 | 27 March 2023
- Modified Date: 03:32 | 27 March 2023
The Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool (TCIP) paid 6.5 billion Turkish liras ($340.36 million) in claim payments so far for victims related to twin earthquakes last month.
On Feb. 6, magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 quakes struck 11 provinces — Adana, Adıyaman, Diyarbakır, Elazığ, Hatay, Gaziantep, Kahramanmaraş, Kiliş, Malatya, Osmaniye and Şanlıurfa.
More than 13.5 million people in Türkiye have been affected by the devastating quakes.
It added that the figure of damaged buildings reached 416,021 as of Monday.
A total of 21,850 buildings were declared as collapsed, 27,836 with heavy damage, 36,129 with medium damage, and 330,206 with light damage.
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