(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 9. Medical personnel
of the Azerbaijan Army, sent to Türkiye following the order of the
President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Supreme Commander-in-Chief
of the Armed Forces Ilham Aliyev, continue activities in Turkish
Kahramanmaras, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry told trend .
According to the ministry, in cooperation with representatives
of the Turkish Ministry of Health and the Turkish Armed Forces,
Azerbaijani military doctors performed a total of 10 surgical
operations in Türkiye.
Besides, the Azerbaijani medical staff checked up 98 citizens
who suffered as a result of the earthquake, providing them with
outpatient care.
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.
Following the latest data, 14,351 people have died, and 63,794
people have got injured in the quake so far.
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