Nations are prepping rescue teams and sending emergency aid to Turkey and Syria. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that 45 countries have offered help with search-and-rescue efforts.Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said Germany’s federal civil protection agency could provide camps with emergency shelters and water treatment units, and that it was already preparing relief supplies with emergency generators, tents and blankets, in coordination with the Turkish authorities.
Medical teams were being readied and relief material was being sent in coordination with the Turkish authorities.Poland will send its rescue group Husar consisting of 76 firemen and eight rescue dogs, Interior and Administration Minister Mariusz Kamiński said.
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