Montenegrin rescuers left for Turkey

Podgorica Airport is the starting point of a team of Montenegrin rescuers who are traveling to Istanbul tonight from the airport to help Turkey with the aim of remediating the consequences of the devastating earthquake, it was announced on the Facebook page of the Airport of Montenegro.
We remind you that a team of firefighters and rescuers from several Montenegrin municipalities will travel to Turkey to provide assistance after the devastating earthquake that hit that country. The Government announced yesterday that they formed a team of 23 rescuers.
We remind you that the death toll in the devastating earthquakes of magnitude 7.8 and 7.7 that hit southeastern Turkey, near the city of Gaziantep, and the northern part of Syria exceeded 5,000.
The earthquakes left behind thousands of injured people, and entire blocks of flats were razed to the ground in the earthquakes.
At least 8,000 people were rescued from the rubble in Turkey, officials there said.
M. J.