Bangladesh CNG Filling Station Owners Association has donated essential goods worth Tk50.81 lakh to the earthquake-hit people of Turkey.
A delegation of the association, led by its general secretary Farhan Noor, handed over the goods to the Turkish volunteer agency TiKA through the Embassy of the Republic of Turkey in Dhaka on Sunday.
The goods include long jackets 3900 pieces, sleeping bags 1000 pieces, big-size tents (14x14) 33 pieces, mid-size tents (10x10) 35 pieces, generators (5.5-kilowatt capacity) 3 pieces, generators (2.5-kilowatt capacity) 14 pieces, room heaters 20 pieces.
More than 46,000 people have been killed in the earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria and the toll is expected to soar, with some 345,000 apartments in Turkey now known to have been destroyed, and many still missing.
