Turkiye earthquake: Azerbaijani rescuers working in Kahramanmarash to assist in rescue operations in Hatay

  17 February 2023    Read: 1170
  Turkiye earthquake: Azerbaijani rescuers working in Kahramanmarash to assist in rescue operations in Hatay

The Ministry of Emergency Situations of Azerbaijan informed about its activities within the rescue operations, human resources involved in the earthquake zone, material and technical base and its humanitarian aid sent to Türkiye following the instructions of the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, AzVision.az reports citing the ministry.

During the search and rescue operations in Kahramanmaras, the rescue forces of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Azerbaijan saved 53 people, pulled the bodies of 741 people from the rubble and handed them over to relevant structures.

The mobile field hospital operating in the Kahramanmaras region has provided medical care to 729 injured people to date.

More than 110 people from the forces of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in Kahramanmaras were sent to support the search and rescue operations in Hatay province.

A 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit southeastern Türkiye on Feb. 6, 2023. The earthquake occurred at a depth of seven kilometers in the Pazarcik region of Kahramanmaras Province. The provinces of Hatay, Gaziantep, Kilis, Osmaniye, Malatya, Adiyaman, Sanliurfa, Diyarbakir, Adana, and Kahramanmaras were subjected to severe destruction.

The quake’s epicenter was located 26 km away from the city of Gaziantep with a population of about 1.06 million. Following the latest data, 38,044 people have been killed, and 80,278 have got injured in the quake.




More about:


News Line