BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 6. President Ilham Aliyev has instructed to send the rescue forces of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Azerbaijan to Türkiye, Trend reports.
A rescue team of 370 people will be dispatched in the coming hours. The crew will be sent on a special flight to Adana Airport.
The Azerbaijani side will also deliver equipment and basic necessities to the disaster zone. For this purpose, a second aircraft is being prepared.
A 7.4-magnitude earthquake was recorded in central Türkiye on Monday, 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.
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.