French aid is on the spot.
73 French rescue workers, volunteers from the French association Pompiers de l'urgence internationale and members of civil security landed on Tuesday February 7 in south-eastern Turkey, about ten kilometers from Adana.
Accompanied by four specially trained dogs, they must go to the city of Hatay, very affected by the earthquakes, to help the victims of the earthquake which struck the country three times from the night of Sunday to Monday.
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A search and rescue team (USAR) of about thirty rescuers, all specialties combined (cyno, medical, intervention in dangerous environments) accompanied by two dogs, with more than 600 kg of freight, will transit through Istanbul to reach in Adana, only a few tens of kilometers from the epicenter
”, the association founded in 2004 had already specified on Monday February 6 in a press release.
Some members of the association had "
already deployed in Turkey in the aftermath of the 1999 Izmit earthquake
" which caused the death of 17,000 people, further indicates Firefighters of the international emergency, which intervened more recently in Nepal (2015) , Ecuador (2016) and Sulawesi, Indonesia (2018).
The earthquake that occurred on Monday before dawn is the most powerful recorded in Turkey since that of Izmit: the provisional toll exceeds 5,000 dead.
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