President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) expressed this Monday (6) solidarity with Turkey and Syria, after a major earthquake that killed more than 1,800 people and left thousands injured in both countries.
“We look with concern at the news coming out of Turkey and Syria, after the earthquake of great magnitude. Brazil expresses its solidarity with the people of both countries, with the families of the victims and everyone who lost their homes in this tragedy,” he wrote. Lula on your Twitter account.
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit central Turkey and northwest Syria, pulverizing apartment blocks and wreaking further destruction on Syrian cities already ravaged by years of war.
The earthquake, the most violent to hit Turkey this century, was also felt in Cyprus and Lebanon. It was followed by another 7.7 magnitude tremor. It was not yet clear how much damage was caused by the second quake, which occurred as rescue workers were sifting through rubble amid difficult weather conditions.
Source: CNN Brasil
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