Members of a Syrian family consisting of 7 people - including 5 children - died today, Friday, in a fire that broke out in a house they had sought refuge in in central Turkey, after they had survived the earthquake that struck the south of the country, according to Turkish media.
The DHI news agency confirmed that the family fled from the heavily affected Norday district in Gaziantep province (southeast) to stay with relatives on the outskirts of Konya.
The fire broke out around 3 a.m. (midnight GMT) from a stove to heat the small house where the family slept.
Footage released by the news agency showed the house, which was largely destroyed by fire, in the middle of a snow-covered area.
And the Anatolia news agency stated that the seven people who died were a married couple and their five children, aged between 4 and 13 years, and 5 other people from the same family were injured in the fire.
Turkey receives 3.7 million Syrian refugees who have fled the war that has ravaged their country since 2011, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
The death toll from the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on the sixth of February exceeded 43,000, according to the latest official toll today, Friday.