Turkish catastrophe fund pays $340.4 million to quake victims

Damaged building notifications reach over 416,000

The Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool (TCIP) paid 6.5 billion Turkish liras ($340.36 million) in claim payments so far for victims related to twin earthquakes last month.

On Feb. 6, magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 quakes struck 11 provinces — Adana, Adiyaman, Diyarbakir, Elazig, Hatay, Gaziantep, Kahramanmaras, Kilis, Malatya, Osmaniye and Sanliurfa.

The quakes affected millions of people

More than 13.5 million people in Türkiye have been affected by the devastating quakes.

It added that the figure of damaged buildings reached 416,021 as of Monday.

A total of 21,850 buildings were declared as collapsed, 27,836 with heavy damage, 36,129 with medium damage, and 330,206 with light damage.

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