The European Union is sending 1,150 rescuers and 70 rescue canines to Türkiye within the wake of Monday’s highly effective quakes, the EU commissioner for disaster administration stated Tuesday.
“EU solidarity at its best,” Janez Lenarcic wrote on Twitter.
The models come from 19 completely different European international locations, together with non-EU members Montenegro and Albania.
Their deployment is coordinated via the “EU Civil Protection Mechanism,” via which international locations in want can request emergency help from the EU and different international locations taking part within the scheme.
At least 3,549 individuals had been killed and 22,168 others injured in 10 provinces of Türkiye after two sturdy earthquakes on Monday jolted the southern a part of the nation, an official from Türkiye’s catastrophe company stated Tuesday.
The earthquakes additionally rocked a number of neighboring international locations within the area, together with Lebanon and Syria.
Syria, already reeling from a decadelong civil battle, has been hit notably unhealthy with over 2,500 deaths and hundreds of others injured.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
