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Turkey : India and other countries are rushing aid after a major earthquake of magnitude 7.8 hit Turkey and Syria earlier in the day leaving over 1,300 people dead and several hundreds injured. The death toll is still mounting.
PM Narendra Modi reached out to quake hit-Turkey. “India stands in solidarity with the people of Turkey and is ready to offer all possible assistance to cope with this tragedy,” the PM said. The government has decided to send rescue teams, medical teams and relief material.
The killer 7.8 earthquake had its epicentre in Gaziantep about 90 kilometres from the Syrian border. This is the region which houses millions of refugees from the Syrian civil war. The quake was felt as far away as Cairo.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said this is his country’s largest disaster since 1939. 2,818 buildings collapsed in today’s quake.
