Ahmad Adil
13 February 2023•Update: 13 February 2023
NEW DELHI
India has sent another plane carrying relief material and medical aid to earthquake-hit Syria and Türkiye, officials said on Sunday.
Indian Air Force on Sunday morning said that one C-17 aircraft got airborne last night for Syria and Türkiye, "bearing relief material and emergency equipment."
Foreign Ministry’s spokesman Arindam Bagchi said on Sunday that the seventh “Operation Dost” flight has reached Syria "with over 23 tons of relief material, including gen-sets, solar lamps, emergency, and critical care medicines, and disaster relief consumables."
He said the flight delivered the relief material for Türkiye at Adana airport.
“This included medical equipment like patient monitor, ECG, syringe pumps and disaster relief material, along with supplies for our teams on the ground,” he wrote on Twitter.
India has launched Operation Dost (Friendship Operation) to send relief to earthquake-hit Türkiye and Syria.
A total of seven flights have been sent to two nations.
Apart from several organizations, individuals are also contributing to help people in Türkiye, where thousands of people lost their lives due to the deadly quakes on Monday.
Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay said late Saturday that at least 24,617 people were killed by two strong earthquakes that jolted southern Türkiye earlier this week.
The magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 quakes, centered in the Kahramanmaras province, affected more than 13 million people across 10 provinces, also including Adana, Adiyaman, Diyarbakir, Gaziantep, Hatay, Kilis, Malatya, Osmaniye, and Sanliurfa.
Several countries in the region, including Syria and Lebanon, also felt the strong tremors that struck Türkiye in the space of fewer than 10 hours.
