Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority says over 335,000 tents are erected in the quake zone and container home settlements are being established at 130 locations.
ANTAKYA, Turkey – Omran Alswed and his family are still living in makeshift shelters almost three weeks after theNearly two million people left homeless by the quake are being housed in tents, container homes and other facilities in and beyond the region, according to Turkish authorities, but Alswed, 25, said his extended family had not yet benefitted.
“The biggest issue is tents. It has been 19 days and we are yet to receive a single tent. We also applied to move into a tent camp but they said the ones nearby are full,” he said at a makeshift settlement near the city of Antakya. AFAD said over 335,000 tents have been erected in the quake zone in Turkey and container home settlements were being established at 130 locations. Nearly 530,000 people have also been evacuated from the quake zone.
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