On Tuesday afternoon, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared a disaster zone in the 10 provinces affected by the earthquakes, imposing a state of emergency in the region for three months. If you’d like to get in touch, you can find me here. I’m Helen Sullivan and if you’re just joining us, here is where things stand at the moment. Australia’s foreign affairs department is providing consular assistance to the families of the nationals who were where the catastrophe struck and to about 40 other Australians and their families who were also in the area. “We assess that the likelihood of large-scale British casualties remains low,” James Cleverly said.įour Australians are unaccounted for following the earthquakes. Three British nationals are missing after the earthquake, the UK’s foreign secretary said on Tuesday. The number of personnel was expected to rise, disaster management agency official Orhan Tatar said. Turkey has deployed more than 24,400 search and rescue personnel to the quake area. The ministry of transport and infrastructure said that overnight 3,400 people took shelter in trains being used as emergency accommodation. Turkey’s disaster management agency said it had 11,342 reports of collapsed buildings, of which 5,775 had been confirmed. On Tuesday afternoon, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared a disaster zone in the 10 provinces affected by the earthquakes, imposing a state of emergency in the region for three months. About 380,000 people have taken refuge in government shelters or hotels, with others huddling in shopping malls, stadiums, mosques and community centres. More than 8,000 people so far have been pulled from the debris in Turkey, said the Turkish vice-president, Fuat Oktay. The numbers are expected to increase “significantly”, Syria’s White Helmets said. At least 5,894 have died in Turkey, bringing the overall lives lost in both countries so far to 7,926. On Wednesday morning, AFP reported that Syria’s toll had climbed to 2,470. The latest death toll from Monday’s catastrophic earthquake stands at 8,364.
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