FILE PHOTO: Displaced people walk outside tents at a camp for earthquake survivors at KSU Avsar university campus in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, March 9, 2023. REUTERS/Susana Vera
ANKARA (Reuters) - The death toll in Turkey from last month's major earthquakes has risen to 48,448, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Monday, as authorities rush to set up container cities to house for the longer-term those left homeless by the disaster.
The combined death toll including those killed in Syria has climbed to more than 54,000.
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