1. The demise depend within the Turkey-Syria earthquake has crossed 21,000. Officers say 17,674 individuals have died in Turkey and three,377 in Syria, bringing the confirmed complete to 21,051.

2. Rescue efforts, on the fourth day, are being performed round the clock to save lots of these nonetheless trapped underneath the rubble.

3. A number of the heaviest devastation occurred close to the quake’s epicentre between Kahramanmaras and Gaziantep, the place whole metropolis blocks lay in ruins.

4. Eyewitness in Turkey’s Gaziantep inform NDTV that multi-storeyed buildings turned to mud in lower than two seconds.

5. The federal government mentioned that almost 3,000 buildings, together with public hospitals, collapsed in seven cities.

6. Chilly, starvation and despair gripped a whole bunch of hundreds of individuals left homeless.

7. The rescue of a 2-year-old boy after 79 hours trapped within the rubble of a collapsed constructing in Hatay and several other different individuals raised spirits amongst weary search crews. However hopes had been fading that many extra can be discovered alive within the ruins of cities and cities.

8. India has initiated “Operation Dost” to assist Turkey and Syria within the aftermath of the quakes. Below the operation, India has despatched rescue groups, medical groups and different provides to the 2 disaster-hit nations.

9. The Indian Military has additionally arrange a subject hospital in Hatay which is able to is supplied with surgical and emergency wards.

10. The US right this moment introduced an preliminary $85 million package deal for emergency reduction for Turkey and Syria. America mentioned the funding will go to companions on the bottom “to ship urgently wanted help for hundreds of thousands of individuals” together with by way of meals, shelter and emergency well being companies.

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