KARACHI: A cargo plane carrying 90 tons of relief goods, including 1,200 winterised tents, departed for quake-hit Turkey on Sunday.
It was the second aid flight sent to Turkey for earthquake victims over the past 48 hours, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said in a statement.
On Saturday, another cargo plane carrying 90 tons of relief goods arrived in the southern Adana province, the statement added.
Khawaja Hassan, the prime minister’s special assistant, is accompanying the relief aid.
“Both flights are part of a special air bridge operation which will fly more than 34 chartered cargo aircraft for dispatching tents to Turkey,” the statement added.
A second ship of the Pakistan Navy departed on Saturday with 500 tons of relief supplies for people affected by the twin powerful earthquakes in Turkey and Syria on February 6.
The ship, PNS Moawin, which departed from Karachi, is carrying 2,600 winterised tents and 38,000 blankets for Turkey and 22,000 blankets, ration packets, and generators for Syria.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif last week announced that Pakistan would send 50,000 winterized tents for earthquake victims in Turkey by March 23.
