Parliament Speaker Sahin sends message of condolences to New Zealand

ANKARA- Turkish Parliament Speaker Mehmet Ali Sahin on Tuesday offered his condolences to New Zealand’s Speaker of Parliament Lockwood Smit over victims of a devastating earthquake that struck the city of Christchurch.
In the message Sahin said he was grieved to learn the quake disaster that struck the second biggest city of the country which caused loss of lives and wished speedy recovery to people of New Zealand.
The powerful earthquake, which registered 6.3 on the Richter scale, hit one of New Zealand’s biggest cities at the height of a work day, bringing down buildings, crushing at least two buses, and trapping an unknown amount of people under debris and rubble.
New Zealand officials have put the death toll at 65, although they said that number is expected to rise as rescue efforts continue.