Relief Aid to Turkey: rescuers continue search and rescue operations in a designated site in Hatay province
As of the evening of February 10, the second column of the unified detachment of the State Emergency Service, consisting of 52 persons and 10 vehicles, arrived at the destination.
Upon the arrival of the second column, a briefing was held with the coordination headquarters, at which further tasks and zones for conducting the emergency rescue operations were determined and 2 search groups were formed.
It should be noted that 11 rescuers, having just arrived in the city of Antakya, immediately began emergency search operations as part of the first search group that intervened in the evening.
At night, 2 groups of rescuers worked in a given square.
As of February 10, search and rescue operations in the provinces of Sanliurfa and Kilis have already been completed.
Regarding the situation with citizens of Ukraine on the territory of Turkey. As of the evening on February 10, 140 appeals were received regarding the lack of contact with Ukrainians living in the disaster zone. In particular, 118 persons were contacted, 2 persons
were rescued from the rubble, and 1 person was hospitalized. Also, 12 persons were evacuated and 63 persons need help (in the form of things, medicines, evacuation). According to preliminary information, 5 citizens of Ukraine may be under the rubble.
Since the beginning of the work, rescuers of the State Emergency Service have already examined 159 buildings, dismantled 72 rubbles, provided medical assistance to one child, unblocked the bodies of 4 dead persons (including 2 children).
Works are ongoing.
International assistance was provided by 90 countries, 38 urban search and rescue teams were dispatched within the framework of the EU Civil Protection Mechanism, including Poland, France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania and other EU countries.
A total of 160,000 persons were engaged in the search and rescue operation, including rescuers, firefighters, medics, military personnel, police, security service representatives, volunteers and 12,240 vehicles.
