Members of different security bodies of Panama, specialized in search and rescue, traveled this Friday to Turkey, where they will provide support in the rescue work, after the strong earthquake that shook this nation and Syria, leaving thousands of dead, wounded and injured people.

Carlos Rumbo, director of the National Civil Protection System (Sinaproc), confirmed that, through the President of the Republic, Laurentino Cortizo, the search and rescue mission was ordered in Turkey.

Yesterday, the Panamanian ambassador to Turkey, Mariela Sagel, reported on TVN Noticias, that a Panamanian team would travel to this country affected by the powerful earthquake of 7.8. As has already been advanced, there will be 20 people who will be leaving this Friday night, in order to collaborate in the recovery of trapped people.

The group is made up of officials from the National Naval Air Service (Senan), National Police (PN), National Border Service (Senafront), Red Cross, Panama Fire Department, Social Security Fund and members of the National Civil Protection System, who are certified as rescuers and search and rescue operations in collapsed structures.

With them, they carry a series of necessary equipment for the entry of collapsed structures, medical implements, two canine guides with competence of agility and dexterity for the detection of victims under rubble.

This group is specifically created, for this type of event and that has already had other experiences, in countries such as: Haiti, Mexico and Ecuador, where earthquakes occurred in previous years.

Also, six months ago they come from a simulated humanitarian assistance operation carried out in Guatemala, where supposedly, there was an earthquake of category 7.8 and where they carried out all the training they have carried out.

Rescue teams continue this Friday looking for survivors among the debris left by the earthquake that hit Syria and Turkey on Monday, one of the deadliest in the region, with more than 22,300 deaths.