Live earthquake updates from Turkey and Syria: As rescuers try to reach survivors, the death toll increases to 7,800.

 

 

 

Live updates on the Turkish and Syrian earthquake: More than 7,800 people have died as a result of a severe earthquake that struck southern Turkey and Syria on Tuesday. Rescuers were attempting to find survivors amid the wreckage of collapsed buildings while working against the clock in the harsh winter weather. The number of fatalities appeared to be significantly on the rise as the disaster’s scope became more and more clear. According to a UN source, thousands of youngsters could have perished. Ten provinces in Turkey were placed under emergency rule by President Tayyip Erdogan. The deadliest earthquake to strike Turkey since 1999 was responded to by authorities very slowly and inadequately, according to the people of many affected Turkish cities, who expressed their rage and sadness.

India dispatches four aircraft to the earthquake-stricken country of Turkey with rescue tools, supplies, and medical personnel.

In support of Turkiye’s rescue efforts in the wake of a devastating earthquake that has claimed over 5,000 lives in the area, India on Tuesday despatched four C-17 Globemaster military transport aircraft filled with relief supplies, a mobile hospital, and specialised search and rescue teams. Syria, which was also affected by the earthquake on Monday, received six tonnes of relief supplies from India on a transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF). These supplies included life-saving medications and medical supplies.

Death toll from the Syrian earthquake

At least 812 people, according to the Syrian state news agency SANA, were killed in the government-controlled provinces of Aleppo, Latakia, Hama, Idlib, and Tartous. According to the White Helmets rescue squad, at least 1,120 people have died in Syria’s opposition-controlled northwest, and the number is anticipated to “increase drastically.”

According to family members and a doctor, residents in a northwest Syrian village found a wailing baby whose mother appears to have given birth to her while buried beneath the debris of a five-story apartment building destroyed by this week’s terrible earthquake.

Numerous buildings were destroyed by the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Turkey.

A 7.8-magnitude earthquake that occurred on Monday while people were asleep destroyed thousands of buildings, trapped an undetermined number of people, and may have affected millions of people. Between the Turkish cities of Kahramanmaras and Gaziantep, where the earthquake’s epicenter was located, entire rows of buildings fell, causing some of the worst destruction.

Death toll from Turkey-Syria earthquake exceeds 7,800 as rescuers battle the cold

In a race against time to identify survivors under buildings destroyed by an earthquake that claimed more than 7,800 lives, rescuers in Turkey and Syria faced extreme cold on Tuesday. People were forced to burn debris in the streets to attempt to remain warm as international help started to arrive as tremors caused extra hardship in a border region that was already beset by strife.

Syria earthquake: Help for those affected Sanctions and the divisions of war slow Syria down

Even before Monday’s terrible earthquake, it would have been extremely difficult politically and logistically to deliver help to every area of war-torn Syria. Following the catastrophe that claimed thousands of lives in Turkey and Syria and destroyed thousands of buildings, those obstacles have only grown more numerous. The delivery of relief to northern Syria, which has already been destroyed by 12 years of conflict, has been slowed down by damage to roads and other infrastructure in southern Turkey. In the meantime, the US and European nations, who are hesitant to route aid directly via the government, have sanctioned Bashar Assad’s regime in Damascus, which is still seen as a pariah in much of the international community. Officials from the US and EU have made it plain that the earthquake won’t change that.

World powers hurry to provide Turkey and Syria assistance following the earthquake

After a huge earthquake in Turkey and Syria claimed the lives of more than 7,000 people, nations all over the world quickly mobilized to provide aid and rescue teams.