Fourteen days after the earthquake of February 6, Turkey today decided to interrupt searches except in the two most affected provinces, Kahramanmaras and Hatay. This was announced by the government relief agency (AFAD). “In many provinces, searches have ended. They are continuing in the provinces of Kahramanmaras and Hatay, in around forty buildings,” said Unus Sezer, head of Afad. The 7.8 magnitude earthquake that devastated the south of the country and Syria killed 40,689 people in Turkey alone, according to the latest official report released Sunday by AFAD.
The body of Angelo Zen returned to Italy on a state flight that landed yesterday afternoon in Venicethe Italian entrepreneur victim of the earthquake in Turkey, who died in the collapse of the hotel where he was staying for work reasons in Kahramanmaras.
Zen’s coffin, who resided in Martellago (Venice), was transported to Romano D’Ezzelino (Vicenza), where he was born and where his mother lives, and where it has been arranged that only close relatives can visit him.
The funeral ceremony, according to the mayor of the Vicenza town, will be celebrated in Romano in a strictly private form, by the will of the family, probably next week.
The second Italian relief team sent to Hatay, Turkey, returned to Italy last night, one of the regions most affected by the earthquake, where he worked tirelessly for the search and recovery of victims. The firefighters report it. There are also 10 Tuscans in the team, with six firefighters (four from the Pisa command, one from the Massa Carrara command and one from the Tuscany regional directorate) and four doctors and nurses. The team was welcomed at the Pisa airport by the regional director of the Tuscan fire brigade Marco Frezza and the commander of Pisa Nicola Ciannelli.
Earthquake in Turkey, contingent of firefighters returned to Italy
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