China makes headway in Turkiye rescue work

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2023-02-11 22:54

Chinese rescuers are still racing against the clock to rescue survivors from the wreckage of buildings devastated after a massive earthquake in Turkiye, despite the narrowing window of possibility to find survivors.

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Aside from an 82-member Chinese official team, 15 civilian rescue teams with 288 rescuers have joined efforts in the disaster-hit nation, according to China's Ministry of Emergency Management.

A magnitude-7.8 temblor struck Turkiye and Syria at 4:17 am local time on Monday, and was followed by hundreds of aftershocks, many of them powerful. The death toll from the jolts topped 22, 000 by Friday.

On Friday, following instructions from the local emergency management authority, members of the Zhejiang Rescue Team of Ramunion headed from Iskenderun, a port city in southern Hatay province where they saved a family of five on Thursday from a heavily damaged building, to Antakya, also in the province.

Chinese civil society has been responding actively to an appeal from the embassy of Syria in China to offer donations to help people in difficulty in the Middle Eastern country.