The Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security’s search and rescue team raced with time to save survivors from the rubble in Turkey on their third working day following the devastating earthquake.

An international rescue delegation of the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security on February 12 presented medical equipment and supplies weighing two tonnes to Turkey, recently affected by a devastating earthquake, through this country’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD).

Seventy six military personnel of Vietnam departed for Turkey on February 12 night to assist the country in recovery efforts following a devastating earthquake.

VOV.VN - The rescue mission led by the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security successfully pulled out three dead bodies from the rubble of collapsed buildings on February 12 during the second day of their ongoing rescue operation in Turkey.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Turkey has sent a working delegation to southeastern provinces joining search and rescue activities for victims of an earthquake that devastated this part the country on February 6.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of National Defence has decided to send 80 Vietnamese soldiers to Turkey to help the Middle Eastern country with ongoing search and rescue efforts following the recent earthquake which has so far killed 21,000.

VOV.VN - Vietnam has sent a total of 24 policemen of the Ho Chi Minh Police Department of Fire Prevention and Fighting and Rescue (PC07) and officers of the Ministry of Public Security to Turkey in order to help locate and rescue survivors of a recent deadly earthquake.

VOV.VN - National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue has sent letters expressing his deepest sympathy to leaders of the Turkish and Syrian legislatures and people of the two countries over serious damage caused by the recent devastating earthquakes.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Turkey had by February 6 recorded no Vietnamese citizens dead or injured in an earthquake that devastated the country earlier the same day.

There has not been any information confirming Vietnamese citizens are among those affected by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Turkey and Syria, the most powerful over the past nearly 100 years.