Turkey and Syria earthquake updates: death toll passes 4,300 with numbers expected to rise – latest news
, but had been delayed as rescue teams globally were coordinated.
“The critical thing in these circumstances is the first 72 hours, these significant British assets are waiting to leave Birmingham, they were ready to leave last night. It’s been coordinated very professionally by the Turkish authorities. They will be leaving imminently. “It will land in daylight today, I hope, later this morning, and it will immediately hit the ground running. I hope that they will be able to save lives.”Difficult conditions frustrate rescue efforts as death toll reaches 5,000
As the scale of the devastation from the 7.8 magnitude tremor continued to unfold, the World Health Organization warned the number of casualties could exceed 20,000., said 3,419 people had been killed in the quake, with another 20,534 had been injured. The number of confirmed deaths on the Syrian side of the border rose to 1,602, bringing the death toll in both countries to 5,021.
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