Two more bodies have been found after last week’s severe flooding in an area in south-east Turkey that had already been hit by the earthquake. Health Minister Fahrettin Koca tweeted late Monday that it was a woman and her one-year-old daughter. They were discovered in Adiyaman province.
The flood water had washed away a container home where the woman and her family lived. The death toll rose to 20, as reported by the private news agency Demirören. The search for the missing has now been completed, wrote the state news agency TRT.
Just five weeks after the devastating February 6 earthquake and many aftershocks, last week the water masses flooded an already disaster-stricken region where thousands of people live in makeshift shelters such as tents. Several tents containing quake survivors were flooded in Adiyaman and the provinces of Şanlıurfa and Hatay near the border with Syria.
The earthquake, which also affected parts of neighboring Syria, killed more than 50,000 people in Turkey alone. Around two million people had to be accommodated in emergency shelters such as tents and containers. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, around 6,800 people died in the tremors across Syria.