ELEVEN PEOPLE HAVE BEEN CHARGED WITH BREACHING CONSTRUCTION RULES IN TURKEY AND SYRIA FEBRUARY QUAKE.

03/01/23

AFP

DANIELS OG

Residents and rescue Personnel searched for Victims and Survivors through the rubble of the collapsed Hotel in Adiyaman, two days after The Earthquake

The Hotel in the South-eastern city of Adiyaman was hosting a school volleyball team from Turkish-controlled northern Cyprus and a group of Tourist guides when the quake hit last year.

Eleven people have been charged with breaching construction rules.

More than 50,000 people died in Turkey and Syria in the 6 February quake.

Some 160,000 buildings collapsed or were badly damaged, leaving 1.5 million people homeless.

The Turkish government said a few weeks later that hundreds of people were under investigation and nearly 200 people had been arrested, including construction contractors and property owners.

A group of 39 people, including boys and girls, teachers and parents from Famagusta Turkish Education College, had travelled to Adiyaman for a volleyball tournament when the earthquake struck.

They had picked the seven-storey Isias Grand hotel, along with as many as 40 tourist guides who were there for training