Published February 12,2023
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A disaster-assistance response group from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has been racing to avoid wasting lives in quake-hit Türkiye.
After Ankara declared a stage 4 alert state together with a global name for assist after final Monday’s quakes, nations throughout the globe such because the US despatched rescue groups to Türkiye for quake victims.
“USAID sent 160 search and rescue personnel along with 12 search dogs here at the request of the Turkish government. We’ve been conducting search and rescue operations since we arrived about two days ago,” John C. Morrison, director of planning at USAID, informed Anadolu on Saturday within the Adiyaman province.
Sent from Los Angeles, California, the group is doing rescue operations in southern Adiyaman, one of many provinces hardest hit by the quakes.
Morrison added they’re nonetheless optimistic that survivors could also be discovered and so are nonetheless working below that assumption to go and rescue individuals trapped inside collapsed buildings.
“Every time we have interacted with the Turkish people, they have been kind and welcoming and we are humbled by their resilience after this disaster. We look forward to supporting the Turks through this search and rescue operation and we will be here as long as necessary to continue search and rescue,” he added.
In Türkiye, over 24,600 individuals had been killed and over 80,000 others wounded after magnitude 7.7 and seven.6 earthquakes struck 10 southern provinces on Feb. 6, affecting round 13 million individuals, in accordance with the most recent official figures.
The earthquakes hit Kahramanmaras and 9 different provinces, specifically Adana, Adiyaman, Diyarbakir, Gaziantep, Hatay, Kilis, Malatya, Osmaniye, and Sanliurfa.
Several nations within the area, together with Syria and Lebanon, additionally felt the sturdy tremors.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
