The teams, who were doing search and rescue work in Gaziantep, found about 2 million dollars under the rubble of a house, and then handed them over to the police. Reported by the Turkish agency Anatolia.
The money was found by Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality firefighters while searching for the victims in the car park of Ayşe-Mehmet Polat, which collapsed in Gaziantep. They were next to a man who was pulled from the rubble by rescuers. Then the rescuers, accompanied by special forces teams, handed over the money they found to the police.
Galip Durdu, the head of the intervention that removed the money, said in a statement that the priority of the teams was to get people out of the rubble alive. He also noted that finding money for them is now “a commonplace”.
On February 17, Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu reportedThe death toll from the earthquakes reached 39,672.