An Argentine mission of 32 rescue workers, doctors and technical experts headed out to Turkey and Syria on the night of February 9th, following February 6th’s monster earthquake (7.8 on the Richter scale), which left at least 20.000 people dead, the Foreign Ministry announced. The rescue team will remain in the disaster area for at least 10 days with the hopes of finding survivirs trapped in the rubble, fading amid a mitterly cold winter.
SOURCE: www.batimes.com.ar