DEVELOPING | Turkey-Syria quake death toll tops 11 200 as rescuers battle cold
- Four South Africans in a Turkey prison did not sustain injuries during the earthquake, says Dirco.- More than 5 000 people have died since two earthquakes hit the Turkey-Syria border.Egypt's Sisi speaks with Turkey's Erdogan to offer support after earthquake - statement
Kyiv will send"to the republic of Turkey a combined search-and-rescue team of the State Emergency Service consisting of 87 people", including 10 flight crew members, according to Ukraine's government website.Syrians living abroad who want to help victims of the earthquake which has killed thousands of people in the region say they are worried that donations will not reach those who need it due to deep political divisions in the war-torn country.
However, its success has prompted complaints on social media that contributions will not get to Syrians in regions under the control of President Bashar al-Assad's government. The epicentre of the first earthquake was about 30km from Gaziantep, a major Turkish city and provincial capitalScientists and seismologists say that the area is prone to earthquakes due to the tectonic plates, and that an event like this is not unusual. However, the fact that it happened close to a major urban area, means that the devastation will be felt for months, if not years.
Each apartment in the multistorey residential blocs “had a family living in it”, Alabdullah told Al Jazeera. “It will take us days, if not weeks, to reach the last person.” A second man runs towards the first carrying a blanket to try to warm the newborn in the sub-zero temperatures while a third screams for a car to take her to hospital.
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