Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the reports and images from Turkey and Syria following disastrous earthquake were \u0022devastating.\u0022
“Canada stands ready to provide assistance,” he said in a statement. “Our thoughts are with everyone affected by these major earthquakes, and our hearts go out to those who lost loved ones.”
“We couldn’t reach them unfortunately through the phone or any other means, but we heard that they died,” he said.“How can that happen to you or your beloved ones?” he said. “It is terrible right now.”Global Affairs Canada said in a statement that it is monitoring the situation and is in close contact with its humanitarian partners.
The quake, which was centred on Turkey’s southeastern province of Kahramanmaras, piled more misery on a region shaped on both sides of the border by more than a decade of civil war in Syria. Moutaz Adham, the Syria country director for Oxfam Canada, said the number of people killed and injured was shifting rapidly.
“Our teams are now responding… they are digging in the rubble to save lives,” he said. “It’s really a huge disaster.”Khaled Abdulwahed, a Toronto-based manager with Molham Volunteering Team, a non-profit organization that provides aid to displaced people in Syria, said his organization has also started a fundraising campaign to support those who lost their homes.
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