The combined death toll rose to more than 3,000 for Turkey and Syria on Monday after the region’s strongest earthquake in nearly a century.
In Turkey, the death toll stood at 1,762, Turkey’s Disaster
and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said, and 12,068 people were recorded
as injured, Reuters reported.
Countries around the world mobilised rapidly to send aid
and rescue workers on Monday after a massive earthquake killed more than 2,600
people in Turkey and Syria.
Offers of assistance came from countries across the world.
Here are some of the chief pledges of support.
The European Union has mobilised 10 search and rescue teams
for Turkey after the stricken country requested EU assistance, EU foreign
policy chief Josep Borrell and EU crisis management commissioner Janez Lenarcic
said.
The EU's Copernicus satellite system has been activated to
provide emergency mapping services, it said adding the bloc was ready to
support those affected in Syria too.
The UN General Assembly observed a minute of silence in
tribute to the victims.
"Our teams are on the ground assessing the needs and
providing assistance. We count on the international community to help the
thousands of families hit by this disaster, many of whom were already in dire
need of humanitarian aid in areas where access is a challenge," UN
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.
Two of India's National Disaster Response Force teams
comprising 100 personnel with dog squads and equipment were ready to be flown
to the affected area, the foreign ministry said. Doctors and paramedics with
medicines were also being readied.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was
"anguished" and "deeply pained" by the deaths in Turkey --
with whom India has frosty relations -- and Syria.
The United States has deployed a team of disaster response
specialists after an earthquake killed more than 2,700 people in Turkey and
north-west Syria, USAid administrator Samantha Power said.
The Disaster Assistance Response Team “will work in close
coordination with Turkish authorities on the frontlines, as well as with our
partners on the ground and agencies across the US government,” Power said in a
statement.
USAid is also in the process of deploying two urban search
and rescue teams from Virginia and California, the statement said.
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