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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>The State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Okello Oryem has assured the public that there is no Ugandan who has died in the Turkey and Syria earthquakes, saying, however, two are still missing.<\/p>\n

The most powerful earthquake to strike Turkey and Syria in nearly a century occurred on Monday killing over 16,000 people.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are four girls, two girls in one apartment and two girls in another. Two girls in one apartment have been found safe and sound and they have informed the authorities that two of their friends in another apartment are missing. They are looking for them,\u201d Mr Oryem said, adding that a Ugandan gentleman who was buried under the rubble, has been recovered and taken to hospital and is in good shape right now.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have gotten in touch with leaders of Ugandan communities in Turkey and asked them to be on the watch for each other and report cases of individuals who are missing so that we can inform the Turkish authorities to take appropriate action,\u201d he said in an interview with NTV on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Mr Oryem said that most Ugandans living in Turkey are working in industries and that as government they don\u2019t intend to bring them back home abruptly because that will be the end of their lifeline for survival.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there are cases of those Ugandans that are desperate and want to come back home, we can find methods to bring them back,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Monday’s first quake struck at 4.17am (0117 GMT) at a depth of about 18 kilometres (11 miles) near the Turkish city of Gaziantep, which is home to around two million people, the US Geological Survey said.<\/p>\n

This was a 7.8-magnitude early morning quake, followed by dozens of aftershocks, that wiped out entire sections of major Turkish cities in a region filled with millions who have fled Syria’s civil war and other conflicts.<\/p>\n

Rescuers used heavy equipment and their bare hands to peel back rubble in search of survivors, whom they could in some cases hear begging for help under the debris.<\/p>\n

Turkey’s last 7.8-magnitude tremor was in 1939 when 33,000 people died in the eastern Erzincan province.<\/p>\n

The Turkish region of Duzce suffered a 7.4-magnitude earthquake in 1999, and more than 17,000 people died — including about 1,000 in Istanbul.<\/p>\n

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