Four French nationals are among the victims of the violent earthquake that occurred in Turkey and Syria on Monday, the French foreign ministry announced on Friday.
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Four days after the earthquake, the balance sheets are constantly increasing. The earthquake of a magnitude of 7.8, which occurred on Monday at dawn, destroyed entire cities in southeast Turkey and northwest Syria. According to the latest official assessments published Friday, February 10, at least 22,368 dead, including 18,991 in Turkey and 3,377 in Syria.
four French among the victims
Four French nationals are among the victims, the French Foreign Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Friday. The Quai d’Orsay added that it followed “with the greatest attention the situation of the French present in the area at the time of the earthquakes, in connection with the Turkish authorities”.
To ensure their protection, the ministry’s crisis and support center and the French Embassy in Ankara have opened crisis cells.
“Given the difficult situation in this area, we are urging the French who would have planned to go there to postpone any travel project,” asked the ministry.
l ‘Humanitarian aid flows to Turkey
“The destruction have affected so many buildings (…) that unfortunately, we could not conduct our interventions as quickly as expected”, for the first time recognized Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in Visit to the city of Adiyaman (south), which was very affected by the disaster.
Humanitarian aid flows to Turkey – Germany notably announced on Friday the sending of 90 tonnes of equipment by plane -, but access to Syria at war, whose regime is under international sanctions , is much more complicated.
Almost all of humanitarian aid for rebel areas is transported from Turkey by the Bab al-Hawa crossing point, the only one currently guaranteed by the UN. Turkish diplomacy says it is used to open two other crossing points “with the regions under the government” of Damascus, “for humanitarian reasons”.
A woman was saved Friday in Kirikhan (Turkey) by a team of German rescuers, after more than a hundred hours under the rubble of a ravaged house, according to an NGO. “The rescue team took more than fifty hours to make their way through the rubble to reach this woman,” described on Twitter the German NGO Isar Germany. The 40 -year -old woman, named Zeynep, was “immediately” taken care of by doctors, her condition is “stable”, according to the NGO.
‼ ️ Rettung Nach über 100 Stundn – Unser Team Hat Am Morgen Eine Frau Aus Den Trümmern Eines Hausss Im Türkisc… https://t.co/mnenmwtt89
– Isar_germany (@i.s.a.r. A href=”https://twitter.com/isar_germany/status/1623988200384475143″ data-datetime = “”>
in Syria, Bashar al-Assad and his wife Aleppo
The Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, went to the bedside of the earthquake in Alepp (North) on Friday, for the first time since the earthquake that left more than 3,300 dead in his country, announced the presidency.
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The Syrian official media published images of the chief of the ‘State, accompanied by his wife, Asma, at the bedside of the victims at the Aleppo University Hospital, in her first visit to disaster regions since the earthquake which also touched Turkey hard.
The president also carried out a tour in disaster districts of Aleppo, the second city in the country, according to images of the presidency. The earthquake left 415 dead and 1,050 injured in the province of the same name, according to a provisional assessment of the Ministry of Health.
During his public appearances since the earthquake, the Syrian president was seen at a government meeting and receiving an official Lebanese delegation, but had not yet been on the ground. Mr. Assad received calls and help from several countries, notably Arab, hoping to break the diplomatic isolation from which he has suffered since the start of the war in Syria in 2011.