Turkey Widens Investigation Into Contractors as Quake Toll Rises
Turkey vowed on Sunday to meticulously pursue contractors linked to deadly building collapses in last weeks earthquake as rescue workers pulled more bodies from the rubble and anger rose at the swelling death toll.
The 7.8-magnitude quake on Feb. 6 caused widespread destruction in 10 provinces in southern Turkey as well as in northern Syria and killed more than 33,000 people. More than one million people have been rendered homeless in Turkey, and many others have been left without shelter in Syria.
Amid the destruction, the attention in Turkey has turned to what earthquake victims and building experts have called inferior construction that left peoples homes particularly vulnerable to collapse. The government has started to respond.
Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag told reporters on Sunday that 134 people had been detained and seven others barred from traveling abroad on charges related to collapsed buildings.
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