Thousands flee from earthquake-hit areas in Turkey, airways provide free tickets

Thousands of individuals fled from earthquake-hit areas in Turkey as airways supplied free tickets to safer locations.

Ankara,UPDATED: Feb 12, 2023 17:57 IST

Thousands assembled on the Gaziantep airport to go away for safer locations. (Photo: Reuters/File)

By Gaurav C Sawant: Turkish Airlines and Pegasus Airlines in Turkey on Sunday introduced free tickets for all these from affected areas to Istanbul, Ankara, Antalya and different safer areas. All school and University hostels and a few resorts in vacationer resorts are being taken to accommodate affected individuals. Thousands of individuals from Gaziantep, Hatai, Nurdagi and Marash have left the affected space.

Thousands assembled on the Gaziantep airport to go away for safer locations.

Rescue operations entered the seventh day on Sunday as rescuers scoured particles to search for survivors after a large earthquake hit Turkey and Syria, killing greater than 28,000 individuals in one of many area’s worst disasters for a century.

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The dying toll continues to rise amid widespread devastation and chilly as starvation and despair gripped tons of of 1000’s of individuals left homeless by the tremors. Several individuals trapped below the rubble have been rescued on Saturday night time.

The physique of an Indian nationwide was recovered from below the particles of a lodge in Malatya on Saturday. The Indian Embassy in Turkey knowledgeable that the physique of an Indian nationwide, recognized as Vijay Kumar, was discovered days after a number of earthquakes rocked Turkey.

Vijay Kumar, who hailed from Kotdwar space of Pauri Garhwal District of Uttarakhand, labored in a Bengaluru firm. He was on a enterprise journey when earthquakes hit Turk

EARTHQUAKES IN TURKEY, SYRIA

Huge earthquakes struck Turkey, leaving over 26,000 individuals useless and a number of other thousand injured or displaced.

The first quake, close to Gaziantep near the Syrian border, measured 7.8 in magnitude. The second occurred 9 hours later, and measured 7.6 on the Richter scale.

The earthquakes have wreaked devastation in Turkey and Syria, with search and rescue operations persevering with unabated since tragedy struck the 2 nations.

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ey and Syria earlier this week.

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Feb 12, 2023