Turkey and Syria authorities may have to “improvise” parts of their response due to the huge scale of the earthquake and damage to infrastructure, says Nat O’Grady, lecturer in Human Geography & Disaster. KayBurley 📺 Sky 501, YouTube
In pictures: Emergency teams continue to search through rubble
He said 70 people were killed in the province of Kahramanmaras, where the quake epicentre was located, along with 20 people in Osmaniye, 18 in Sanliurfa, 14 in Diyarbakir and 13 in Adiyaman;We now know that 147 people have died in opposition-held areas of northwest Syria, according to rescuers. Israeli President Isaac Herzog has also offered help, saying:"The State of Israel is always ready to send aid by any means possible.The Egyptian Foreign Ministry has said it will provide assistance too after the country's capital, Cairo, reported feeling the deadly earthquake as well.
"Our thoughts are with the victims, their families and the many injured Turks and Syrians," he added. Syrian hospitals are"overwhelmed" and patients are"filling the hallways", according to the Syrian American Medical Society . He added that teams will have to be aware of aftershocks hitting at any moment, with more building collapses likely to occur if they do.
"There will be various options and situations and scenarios they will be running through to work out the best and quickest way to get their teams into the country."
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