Turkish Interior Minister Suleiman Soylu announced today, Monday, that the death toll from the two earthquakes that struck Turkey last February has risen to 48,448 people, including 6,660 foreigners.
This coincides with the recording of new earthquakes in the states of Hatay and Malatya, in the south of the country, today morning.
According to the Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Administration, the Hessa area of Hatay province was hit by an earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale.
The tremor occurred at 05:23 local time, at a depth of 11.52 km below the surface of the earth.
The Potorg region, in the state of Malatya, was also hit by two earthquakes measuring 4.5 degrees at 04:34 local time, at a depth of 8 kilometers.
As for the second tremor, it was of a magnitude of 4.5 at 05:13 local time, at a depth of 10 kilometers.
It is noteworthy that on the sixth of last February, two earthquakes of magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 struck southern Turkey and northern Syria, followed by thousands of violent aftershocks.
The disaster, which centered on the state of Kahramanmaraş, claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people and left great destruction in 11 Turkish states.