Find Two Indonesian Citizens, The Indonesian Embassy In Ankara And The National Search And Rescue Agency For Team Sends To Diyarbakir

Director of PWNI Kemlu Judha Nugraha during a briefing with the team. (Source: Indonesian Embassy in Ankara)

JAKARTA - The Indonesian Indonesian Embassy Protection Team Ankara and the Charlie Basarnas Team left for Diyarbakir Province, to look for two Indonesian citizens (WNI) who could not be contacted on Thursday.

About 550 kilometers from Hatay Province, the team will travel on land for eight hours.

The team will strengthen the SAR team that has already searched the two Indonesian citizens.

In addition to bringing a number of equipment, the Basarnas Team also brought sniffer dogs. The Director of Protection for Indonesian citizens, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Judha Nugraha, directly led the search effort.

"We have decided to bring Charlie's team with 14 Basarnas personnel to join other SAR teams operating in Diyarbakir, in order to obtain certainty regarding the condition of the two Indonesian citizens who have yet to be contacted," said Judha Nugraha, in a statement from the Indonesian Embassy in Ankara, Thursday, February 16.

The two Indonesian citizens who have not been able to be contacted work as spa therapists. Information from the Indonesian people in Diyarbakir who were close to the two Indonesian citizens said that the two lived in the Galleria Apartment during the earthquake.

Meanwhile, the apartment is known to be one of hundreds of buildings that experienced total collapse.