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Sabina Mammadli read more The Azerbaijani Emergency Ministry rescue team has so far saved
16 people, including three children from beneath the rubble, and
also pulled 29 bodies in Türkiye's quake-hit Kahramanmaras,
Azernews reports.
Besides, the Foreign Ministry has reported that Azerbaijani
citizen Naila Bunyatova (born in 1980) died following the fatal
earthquake.
Later, another rescue team of 227 people from the emergency
situations ministry arrived in Turkiye to help eliminate the
consequences of the earthquake and support search and rescue
operations.
The team includes personnel of the State Fire Service and the
Special Risk Rescue Service of the ministry.
The plane took off from the Heydar Aliyev International Airport
to the Turkish city of Adana.
A 7.7-magnitude earthquake was recorded in central Turkiye on
the morning of February 6, 2023, according to the
European-Mediterranean Seismological Center. The quake's epicenter
was located 26 km away from the city of Gaziantep with a population
of about 1.06 million. The source of the earthquake was 7 km below
the surface. Further, three more quakes with a magnitude of 6.4-6.6
rocked Gaziantep province in south-eastern Turkiye. As a result of
the earthquake that hit Turkiye, strong tremors were also felt in
Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, and Cyprus.
At the moment of writing this article, the overall death toll in
Turkiye has gone over 7,108 with 38,224 others injured.
Azerbaijan was the first country to provide assistance to
Turkiye immediately after the earthquake.
The Ministry of Emergency Situations continues to send
humanitarian aid and rescuers to Turkiye.
Azerbaijani rescuers are currently working in the Turkish
earthquake-hit regions.
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Sabina Mammadli is AzerNews' staff journalist, follow her on
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