Armenia to send humanitarian aid package to Turkey

October 27, 2011 - 17:59 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - On October 27, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (ICRM) and Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre (EADRCC) passed Turkey’s official application for post-quake assistance to Armenia.

Late October 27, representatives of Armenian Ministry of Emergency Situations will deliver a 40-ton humanitarian aid consignment, including tends, sleeping bags, blankets and bedding to Turkish city of Izmir, ministerial press service reported.

At least 217 were killed and more than 1,000 people injured when a powerful earthquake struck Turkey Oct 23, collapsing dozens of buildings and pulling down phone and power lines in the southeast of the country, officials and witnesses said. More than 1,000 people are feared killed in the earthquake.

Another magnitude 6.1 earthquake, which was the second to rock the country within 24 hours, was registered about 20 km (12 miles) from the city of Van at the depth of some 10 km (6.2 miles).