(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 8. Money
transfers to the Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management
Authority (AFAD) in connection with the earthquake that struck
Türkiye on February 6 via Azerbaijan's Azerpost LLC will be carried
out without commission, trend reports referring to Azerbaijan's Ministry of
Digital Development and Transport.
The ministry noted that the customer service
departments of the Azerpost work until 18:00 (GMT+4) on business
days and until 16:00 on weekends.
Commission-free money transfers to the AFAD are
available from the accounts of Azerbaijani banks, as well as
through electronic payment systems.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7 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.
Türkiye's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority
said that three more earthquakes with a magnitude of 6.4-6.6 rocked
Gaziantep province in south-eastern Türkiye. As a result of the
earthquake that hit Türkiye, strong tremors were also felt in
Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, and Cyprus.
As many as 8,574 people have been killed, and 49,133
have got injured in the quake.
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