Turkish Ambassador Olgan Bekar during a press conference in Tashkent told how many citizens of Uzbekistan died as a result of a powerful earthquake.

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According to him, the number of earthquake victims in Türkiye exceeded 47 thousand people.
Seven citizens of Uzbekistan are among the dead.
It should be recalled that earthquakes of magnitude 7.4-7.7 occurred on February 6 in the province of Kahramanmaraş in southeastern Türkiye.
Tremors, followed by more than two thousand aftershocks, were also felt in neighboring states, including Syria.