At least 14 people have been arrested in Turkey and 33 others are wanted in cases of negligence in the construction of buildings that collapsed in Monday’s devastating earthquake in southern Turkey and northwestern Syria.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office is thus pursuing some thirty builders in the city of Diyarbakir, whose buildings, for example, had foundations of less to free up space, reports the official Anatolia news agency.
One of the detained contractors, Mehmet Ertan Akay, was caught at Istanbul airport while trying to escape to Montenegro with a large amount of cash. Nine others have been arrested in the towns of Sanliurfa and Osmaniye.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
