Earthquake in Turkey & Syria: Emergency supplies from Iran and Iraq arrive in Syria

• 70 tons of food, medical supplies, and blankets are sent.
• Iranian aid arrived earlier on Monday.
• Over 4300 casualties have been reported.

Aid planes from Iran and Iraq have arrived at Damascus International Airport.

The Iraqi planes carried about 70 tons of food, medical supplies, and blankets, among other emergency supplies, Syrian state media reported. These were delivered early Tuesday morning.

Iraqi’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said on Monday they would send an aid shipment supplying first aid, shelter supplies, medicine, and fuel.

Iranian aid arrived earlier on Monday. Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said on Monday that his country is ready to dispatch humanitarian aid to quake-hit areas in Syria.

A 7.8 magnitude earthquake on early Monday jolted southern Turkiye and northwest Syria, killing over 4300 people in their sleep, leveling buildings, and causing tremors felt as far away as Greenland.

At least  1,451 were killed in rebel and government-controlled parts of Syria, state media and medical sources said whereas 2,921 people died in Turkey.

Rescue workers and residents frantically searched for survivors under the rubble of buildings in multiple cities on both sides of the border.

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