WAN, North Kurdistan, — A new earthquake measured at 4.1 magnitude hit the city of Wan today at noon time, ANF reports.
Fire was reported last night leading to the Bingol family with seven members losing their tent and all their goods.
The fire broke out from a sparkle of a heating stove and expanded in a short while. The fire was however brought under control with the help of other people.
Fire brigades came to the place afterwards but the tent of family Bingol had already become unusable. Father Bingol said; “What will I do now outside with five children? We had only a tent which we made by our own means. We were given neither a tent nor something else.”
Three more tents burnt down at the weekend.
Last week Italian lawyer Mario Angelelli visited Van with a delegation arrived from Italy to attend the trial of Kurdish politicians in Diyarbakir.
Angelelli said they met the BDP mayor of the city, lawyer Bakir Kaya who explained the hard situation the people of Wan are living. Not just because of the tragedy of the earthquake which destroyed most houses, but also because of the attitude of the governor (in charge of distributing aids). Indeed the mayor underlined that aids arrived from all over the world but were left to go rotten at the border. And now it is not clear how they are distributed to the population, what is planned to rebuild the city but also how it is planned to get schools working again.