PUTRAJAYA, Feb 12 — Malaysia has deployed 142 rescue personnel and two tracker dogs (K9) to participate in the search-and-rescue (SAR) mission for earthquake victims in Turkiye so far, the Foreign Ministry said today.

ANTAKYA,/JANDARIS, Feb 12 — Exhausted rescuers pulled dwindling numbers of survivors from earthquake rubble in Turkiye and Syria on Saturday (February 11), five days after one of the region's worst natural disasters whose death toll neared 26,000 and looked set to rise far higher.

GAZIANTEP, Feb 12 — Members of the Special Malaysia Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team (Smart) were struck by disbelief and shock when they discovered and rescued five members of a family who were trapped in the rubble of their residential building for the past six days on Saturday as a result of the devastating earthquake that hit this area.

SEPANG, Feb 12 — The Malaysian Field Hospital (HMM) that will be built in Turkiye to provide medical services to earthquake victims in the country is expected to be operational on Wednesday (February 15).

GAZIANTEP (Turkiye), Feb 11 — The MAS-01 SMART team found six bodies of earthquake victims in a seven-storey hotel and residential building that completely collapsed in Nurdagi here on Friday.

NEW YORK, Feb 11 — The death toll rose to 20,318 with more than 80,000 thousand wounded from Monday's devastating earthquakes in southern Turkiye, Anadolu Agency (AA) quoted the country's disaster agency Friday.

SEPANG, Feb 11 — The Malaysian Armed Forces (MAF) have sent 106 medical personnel, including 14 experts in various fields and 12 medical officers, to join the humanitarian aid mission for victims of the earthquake in Turkiye.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 10 — The Turkiye Embassy in Malaysia stated today that donations towards search and rescue operations in the aftermath of the recent earthquakes in Turkiye could also be given in Ringgit Malaysia via bank transfer to its official account number.

WASHINGTON, Feb 10 — The World Bank has announced US$1.7 billion in new assistance for Turkiye to help the country recover from the recent devastating earthquakes and aftershocks, according to a statement released on Thursday.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 10 — The Malaysian Armed Forces (MAF) is arranging the level three deployment of teams and equipment from its field hospital, Hospital Medan Malaysia (HMM), to Turkiye for a period of six weeks, to provide humanitarian aid to earthquake victims in that country.

ANTAKYA, Turkiye/JANDARIS, Syria, Feb 10 — Cold, hunger and despair gripped hundreds of thousands of people left homeless after the earthquakes that struck Turkiye and Syria three days ago as the death toll passed 20,000 on Thursday.

GAZIANTEP (Turkiye), Feb 10 — The second Malaysian rescue team (MAS-10) deployed to assist in the search and rescue (SAR) for Turkiye earthquake victims who already arrived in Gaziantep on Thursday evening, is still unable to enter ground zero due to logistics problems.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 10 — The Boeing Company on Thursday announced a donation of US$500,000 from the Boeing Charitable Trust to assist those impacted by the recent earthquake in Turkiye.

ANTAKYA/JANDARIS, Feb 9 — Cold, hunger and despair gripped hundreds of thousands of people left homeless by earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria on Thursday, while hopes faded of many more people being found alive amid the ruins of cities.

KOTA KINABALU, Feb 9 — A Malaysian Armed Forces (ATM) Royal Medical Corps team will be deployed to Türkiye early tomorrow morning to set up a field hospital, following the earthquake that hit the country three days ago, said Defence Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan.

ROME, Feb 9 — The energy released by twin earthquakes that hit the 10 southern provinces of Türkiye was 130 times stronger than the one that occurred in Italy in 2016, a prominent Italian scientist said.

ANKARA, Feb 9 — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that it was impossible to get prepared for a calamity like the earthquakes that struck the country on Monday (February 6) and left more than 9,000 people dead, but he vowed to exert utmost efforts to save citizens' lives.

ISTANBUL (Turkiye), Feb 9 — The second Special Malaysia Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team (SMART), deployed to Turkiye, safely arrived at Istanbul Airport here at 11 this morning (6am Istanbul time).

WASHINGTON, Feb 9 — US President Joe Biden said Wednesday that the devastating earthquake that struck Türkiye and Syria this week was "one of the worst" in the region.

BANGKOK, Feb 9 — A Thai woman has died in the deadly earthquake which jolted southern Türkiye on Monday.