How many people are still missing after the February 6 earthquakes?

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After two dead bodies have been found during the debris removal in Adıyaman on June 6, and in Antakya on June 21, on the wreckage of buildings that collapsed in the February 6 earthquakes, Tülay Hatimoğulları, the Adana MP of the Green and Left Party submitted a parliamentary question requesting the Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya to reply. 

The number of citizens that are still missing after the February 6 earthquakes, the number of dead bodies buried without their identities being found out, and the number of earthquake victims, if any, still receiving treatment in intensive care units and who are unconscious were some of the information that Hatimoğulları wanted the Minister to make public. 

The MP also asked if there is a central registry system including all cases of people lost and also hospital records. She wanted Minister Yerlikaya to answer if a comparison has been made between the address-based population registration and the people who are lost and if the data on the people who are lost will be made public. 

The Adana MP also questioned if the debris removal was being carried out taking into account the information of the people who are missing. 

February 6 earthquakes

On February 6, two earthquakes with a magnitude of 7.7 and 7.6 struck the southern city of Maraş. The first quake in the Pazarcık district at 4.17 a.m. was followed by the second one in Elbistan about nine hours later.

The quakes affected 11 cities in Türkiye's south and southeast, as well as Syria's northern parts, where over 5,000 people have died.

Türkiye's death toll from the quakes stands at over 50 thousand and is expected to increase further, as over 160,000 buildings were destroyed or severely damaged, according to government figures.

Nearly two million people have been displaced due to the earthquakes. (VC/PE)