Georgian Ambassador to Turkey, Giorgi Janjgava, along with the Embassy representatives, on Sunday, arrived at the southeastern Turkish city of Adiyaman hit by the magnitude 7.8 earthquake on 6 February.

According to the Georgian Foreign Ministry, the diplomats will deliver humanitarian aid to earthquake victims and hold meetings with local authorities, as well as Georgian citizens in a bid to identify their needs.

They will also meet the Georgian rescuers, who had been already engaged in search and rescue operations and assist in evacuating Georgian citizens from the earthquake-hit areas to Turkey’s capital city of Ankara.

The fifth Georgian citizen died in Turkey after a deadly earthquake jolted southern Turkey and northern Syria on 6 February, the Georgian Foreign Ministry (MFA) told GPB First Channel on Sunday.

As of now, the Turkey-Syria earthquake death toll topped 24,000, with many trapped under the rubble.

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