Russian rescuers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, as part of their assistance, went to Kahramanmarash, the Turkish province that suffered the most as a result of the earthquake. On Tuesday, February 7, Izvestia correspondent Ivan Litomin reports.
Specialists will work 24 hours a day, changing each other in shifts, the journalist reports.
Two planes with more than 100 employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation landed at Adana airport earlier in the day. As specified, an airmobile hospital was delivered to the emergency zone, on the basis of which more than 40 Russian specialists will be involved in providing assistance to the victims.
According to the latest data, as a result of an earthquake in southeastern Turkey, the death toll was 2921. The number of victims is estimated at 15,834 people.
On the night of February 6, seismologists recorded an earthquake of magnitude 7.7 near the Turkish city of Gaziantep, located near the Syrian border.
Several dozen aftershocks followed. In the afternoon there was another earthquake of magnitude 7.6. Syrian provinces also suffered as a result of this natural disaster. The victims of the tragedy were 656 people, more than 1.4 thousand people were injured.
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