Kenya has committed to sending aid and called on trained medical workers to volunteer their services.

Africa’s largest non-governmental humanitarian organisation, Gift of the Givers, has also dispatched teams of rescue workers and equipment to help the huge international rescue effort.

More than 11,000 people in southern Turkey and northern Syria have been killed in the 7.8 magnitude quake, with officials quoting 8,574 deaths in Turkey and 2,660 people confirmed dead in Syria.