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- 22.02.2023 08:53:00
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Rescuers of the Committee for Emergency Situations and Civil Defense under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan will return to their homeland tonight. This was reported to the correspondent of NIAT "Khovar" by the press secretary of the Committee Umeda Yusufi.
"As everyone knows, our rescuers are returning after participating in search and rescue operations in Turkey. The plane with Tajik rescuers will arrive in Dushanbe on the night of February 22-23. Our rescuers successfully fulfilled their mission, actively participated in search and rescue operations in the Turkish provinces of Kahramanmarash and Hatay," umed Umeda Yusufi.
Recall that on February 6, with an interval of 9 hours in the south of Turkey, two powerful earthquakes occurred. The epicenter of the first with a magnitude of 7.8 was in the Šehitkamil district in Gaziantep, the epicenter of the second with a magnitude of 7.5 was in the Ekinözü district in Kahramanmarash. After the earthquakes, more than a thousand aftershocks (aftershocks) were recorded. As a result of the disaster in Turkey, more than 42 thousand people died, tens of thousands were injured.
On February 9, Tajikistan sent a team of rescuers and medical personnel of the Committee for Emergency Situations and Civil Defense consisting of 50 people to Turkey.
Our rescuers began search and rescue operations in Kahramanmarash, the most affected by the devastating earthquake.
On February 20, President of the Republic of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Tajik rescuers and praised their work.
Source: khovar.tj
