The latest statement of AFAD (Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency) said that 45,089 people lost their lives while 1,15,000 people were injured in the Turkey earthquake, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported.
After a devastating earthquake hit Turkey and Syria on February 7, killing at least 35,000 people as per available statistics, India promptly dispatched a relief and rescue team. Reacting within a few hours under Operation Dosti, India was among the first countries to respond to the earthquake.
A survivor was rescued from the debris in the Antakya district of Hatay province by Chinese and local rescuers on Sunday afternoon, 150 hours after the quake hit the region.
Vijay Kumar, a resident of Uttrakhand’s Kotdwar, worked for a Bengaluru-based company and was on a business trip to Turkey when the earthquake struck the country.
The first Indian Air Force plane carrying disaster relief material and rescue team to support search and rescue efforts in…
