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Azerbaijani MFA talks measures taken to return Türkiye earthquake victim to home

Politics Materials 8 February 2023 15:56 (UTC +04:00)
Azerbaijani MFA talks measures taken to return Türkiye earthquake victim to home

BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 8. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan has released information claiming that all necessary measures are being taken to deliver the body of Baku resident Naila Bunyatova (born in 1980) to Azerbaijan, who died, following the deadly earthquake in Türkiye, the ministry told Trend.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7 has 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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