Due to the heavy snowfall been effective in Turkey’s city of Gaziantep on Tuesday, TAG Highway closed to traffic by vehicles stuck on the road. The air and land rescue efforts been started on the TAG Highway. With 2 helicopters allocated by the Turkish Land Forces Command, evacuation work of stranded in snow, especially for the elderly, children and patients, is carried out. In addition to that, food aid is provided to those stranded, by helicopters. Also rescue efforts being carried out on land to save the vehicles and people stranded on the road.
On the other hand, the work is being carried out to reopen the road to traffic by rescuing vehicles that slipped and crash, with the help of all-terrain vehicles and rescuers from the Armored Brigade Deputy Commander in İslahiye. In the operations carried out with military vehicles, 4 semi-trucks, 3 trucks and 3 civilian vehicles were rescued. In addition to that, the soldiers rescue the stranded women, children and the elderly and take them to hospitals.