The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on the 12th that the Republic of Korea Emergency Relief Team (KDRT), which was dispatched to the area affected by the earthquake in Turkiye, rescued two additional survivors from the affected area.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, KDRT, which is continuing search and rescue activities in Antakya, southeastern Turkey, added one survivor each at 7:18 and 8:18 pm local time on the 11th and at 1:18 and 2:18 am on the 12th local time. Rescued.
“The survivors were rescued from the same building as a 17-year-old man and a 51-year-old woman,” said an official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “The man is unconscious, but the woman is in good health.”
KDRT rescued a 65-year-old female survivor from the search site at around 2:02 pm (local time, 8:02 pm Korean time) on the 11th and was urgently transferred to a nearby hospital.
As a result, the number of survivors rescued since the 9th, when KDRT began rescue operations in Turkiye, has increased to eight.
Hundreds of aftershocks followed the 7.8 earthquake on the 6th in the southeastern region of Turkiye, which shares the border with Syria. As a result, the number of deaths reported so far in both Turkey and Syria has exceeded 25,000.
At the request of the Turkiye side, the Korean government dispatched a total of 118 KDRT to the site on the 8th. KDRT was established in 2007 in accordance with the ‘Overseas Emergency Relief Act’ (Overseas Emergency Relief Act), and in the event of a large-scale overseas disaster, the public-private joint Overseas Emergency Relief Council deliberation is involved in disaster relief and support activities for affected countries.
The KDRT members currently dispatched to Turkey are scheduled to carry out search and rescue activities until the 17th, and the government plans to consider sending additional KDRTs in a shift format depending on the local situation.
An official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, “KDRT plans to continue carrying out high-intensity search and rescue activities centering on areas where survivors are likely to survive.”
(Seoul-Antakya = News 1)
Source: Donga
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