Ajit Karn
As stated by the embassy, the Indian man was from Uttarakhand and was visiting Turkey for business.
The Indian embassy said on Saturday that the corpse of an Indian man who had been missing since the earthquake that struck Turkey on February 6 had been found beneath the debris of the hotel where he had been staying.
According to the embassy, the guy, Vijay Kumar, was from the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand and was travelling to Turkey for business.
He was rescued from under a hotel’s debris in Malatya, an area that was heavily affected by the terrible earthquake.
The businessman, whose face was mutilated beyond recognition, was recognised by a tattoo of the word “Om” on one of his hands, according to his relatives, who cited Indian embassy staff, according to news agency PTI.
He lived in the Padampur neighbourhood of Kotdwar in the Pauri district. On Friday, his clothing had been discovered.
The embassy said that every preparation is being made to return the corpse to India.
According to the agency’s study, there are roughly 3,000 Indians living in Turkey, 1,800 of them reside in and around Istanbul, 250 in Ankara, and the remainder are dispersed across the whole nation.
A 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on Monday caused thousands of buildings to collapse, trapped an undetermined number of people, and may have affected millions more people. The current death toll is 25,000, and more deaths are anticipated.
The disaster agency for Turkey said on Saturday that almost 32,000 Turkish citizens are helping with search and rescue operations. There are also 8,294 foreign rescuers.
According to S Jaishankar, the minister of external affairs, India is deploying search and rescue teams to Turkey as part of “Operation Dost” and is also sending material, medical supplies, and equipment to Syria.
We inform with sorrow that the mortal remains of Shri Vijay Kumar, an Indian national missing in Turkiye since February 6 earthquake, have been found and identified among the debris of a hotel in Malatya, where he was on a business trip.@PMOIndia @DrSJaishankar @MEAIndia
1/2— India in Türkiye (@IndianEmbassyTR) February 11, 2023
Even with the bitter cold adding to the suffering of the millions who are now in urgent need of assistance, tens of thousands of local and foreign rescue personnel are still combing through the destroyed neighbourhoods.
Also read:- Operation Dost : How the Indian Army is preparing for war to rescue survivors of the Turkey earthquake.
For the first time, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan acknowledged on Friday that his country was unable to reach and assist the victims “as swiftly as we had intended.”
The earthquake was the worst and deadliest since a 7.8-magnitude tremor in 1939 that killed 33,000 people.
