14 people arrested for negligence in the construction of collapsed buildings in Turkey

Latest Turkey and Syria earthquake news

11 Feb. () –

At least 14 people have been detained in Turkey and another 33 are wanted for cases of negligence in the construction of buildings that ended up collapsing in the devastating earthquake on Monday in the south of the country and in northwestern Syria.

The Prosecutor’s Office thus persecutes about thirty builders from the city of Diyarbakir, whose buildings, for example, had fewer foundations to free up space, the official Anatolia news agency reports.

One of the detained contractors, Mehmet Ertan Akay, was caught at the Istanbul airport while trying to escape to Montenegro with a large amount of cash. Nine others have been detained in the towns of Sanliurfa and Osmaniye.