Ankara, Europe Brief News – After surviving kahramanmaras earthquake, a Syrian family of seven died in a fire.
The Syrian family had moved to the central region of Konya from the southeastern Turkish city of Nurdagi, which was badly hit by the February 6 quakes.
However, their single-storey house, in which 14 people lived, caught fire on Friday.
All the family members, including five children, died in the fire. Seven other people were injured in the incident.
The five children who died were aged between four and 13.
Turkey’s state-owned Anadolu Agency reported citing a written statement from Konya Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office that the single-storey house, in which 14 people lived, caught fire on Friday.
“The necessary investigations were carried out at the scene and a committee of experts was appointed,” the statement said.
“We saw the fire but we could not intervene. Fortunately, a girl was rescued from the window,” resident Muhsin Cakir told Anadolu.
Turkey is home to nearly four million Syrians.
Many of them live in southeastern regions devastated by last week’s disaster. The death toll from the quakes has surpassed 43,000 across southeastern Turkey and Syria.
Gaziantep, one of southern Turkey’s big cities, has a population of almost two million. Nearly one-third of them are Syrian refugees who fled the war in the Arab country that started in 2011.
