None of the Polish rescuers working in Turkey said they had pulled nine people alive from the rubble so far, including parents with two children and a 13-year-old girl from the ruins in the city of Besni.
Two days after the earthquake, none of Syria activated the EU civil protection mechanism to request further assistance from the 27 country bloc and the eight other nation states that are part of the programme. The European Union mobilised search and rescue teams to help Turkey while the Copernicus satellite system was activated to provide emergency mapping services. There are 19 member countries that have offered assistance.