Large Amount Of Supplies From Ireland To Be Delivered To Charities Helping Earthquake Victims

Minister Fleming with Turkish Ambassador Olcay

The number of people who've died is now more than 37,000.

A 13-year-old boy has been pulled out alive from a collapsed building in southern Turkey, seven-and-a-half days after a devastating earthquake struck the region.

The number of people who've died there and in Syria is now more than 37-thousand.

Aid agencies are warning that Syrian survivors need urgent help.  

Minister of State in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Laois Offaly Fianna Fail TD Sean Fleming says a plane will be bringing a large amount of supplies from Ireland in the next day or two:

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