Humanitarian Aid from Indonesia Lands in Turkey on Sunday
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13 February 2023 12:55 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Two Indonesian Air Force planes carrying humanitarian aid for the survivors of the earthquake that devastated Turkey and Syria arrived at the Adana Airport on Sunday, February 12. This marks the inaugural government assistance batch from Indonesia.
The Indonesian embassy in Ankara in a statement on Sunday stated that the first B 737-400 landed on Sunday morning, February 12, which carried 47 search and rescue personnel along with light rescue equipment.
Afterward in the afternoon, another Indonesian flight in the form of a Hercules C-130 landed carrying humanitarian aid from the Ministry of Defense. According to the Indonesian Embassy attache Col. Amir Ali Akbar, the two airplanes made an immediate return after unloading their cargo.
U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths described the earthquake as the region's worst event in 100 years, predicting on Saturday that the death toll would at least double.
He praised Turkey's response, saying his experience was that disaster victims were always disappointed by early relief efforts.
The quake ranks as the world's seventh deadliest natural disaster this century, its toll approaching the 31,000 from a quake in neighboring Iran in 2003.
It has killed 24,617 inside Turkey, and more than 3,500 in Syria, where tolls have not been updated since Friday.
Turkey said about 80,000 people were in the hospital, with more than 1 million in temporary shelters.
In Syria's government-controlled city of Aleppo, World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus described the disaster as heartbreaking as he supervised some relief distribution and promised more.
DANIEL A. FAJRI | REUTERS
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