ISTANBUL - Five Syrian children and their parents died on Friday in a fire that struck a Turkish home they moved to after surviving last week’s...
ISTANBUL - Five Syrian children and their parents died on Friday in a fire that struck a Turkish home they moved to after survivingThe Syrian family moved to the central region of Konya from the southeastern Turkish city of Nurdagi, which was badly hit by the Feb 6 temblor.
The death toll from the 7.8-magnitude quake has surpassed 41,000 across southeastern Turkey and Syria, becoming the region’s deadliest natural disaster in centuries. Anadolu state news agency said the Syrian family had moved in with their relatives in Konya after the quake, following a path taken by millions of others displaced by the disaster.
“We saw the fire but we could not intervene. A girl was rescued from the window,” resident Muhsin Cakir told Anadolu. The five children who died were aged between four and 13, the news agency reported. It was unclear whether the girl who was rescued was a member of the same family.
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