Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs Ayman Safadi announced, on Monday, that Jordan will send aid to Syria and Turkey to contribute to relief efforts, under the direction of the King.

Al-Safadi said on Twitter: “May God have mercy on the earthquake victims in Syria and Turkey, and grant the injured a speedy recovery. I called my Turkish counterpart, Mevlut Cavusoglu, and the Syrian Faisal Mekdad, offering the Kingdom’s condolences, and affirming our full solidarity with the brothers.

King Abdullah II expressed his condolences for the victims of the earthquake, which struck areas in Syria and Turkey, on Monday.

He directed the provision of aid to the families of the victims and the injured in the two countries, through two telegrams of condolence sent to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

In the two telegrams, the King expressed his sincere condolences and sympathy to the Syrian and Turkish presidents and the families of the victims, and wished the injured a speedy recovery.

In Syria, the death toll from an earthquake that struck the Syrian governorates of Aleppo, Lattakia, Hama, and Tartous, on Monday morning, has risen to 430 deaths and at least 1,315 injuries, according to what the Assistant Minister of Health, Ahmad Dmairiyeh, confirmed to the Syrian News Agency.

While the White Helmets Organization (Civil Defense in areas under the control of the Syrian opposition) reported the death of 221 people and the injury of 419, indicating that the number is likely to rise.

For his part, the head of the Disaster and Emergency Management Department in Turkey, Yunus Sezer, said that the death toll from a strong earthquake that struck the south of the country on Monday rose to 1,550, while the earthquake caused the destruction of 2,824 buildings.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the earthquake “is the largest disaster that has occurred in Turkey since the 1939 earthquake,” adding that “45 countries have offered assistance in rescue efforts and search for victims.”

In Jordan, the head of the Jordanian Seismological Observatory, Ghassan Sweidan, said on Monday that the residents of northern Jordan felt the aftershock of the earthquake, which was monitored at 1:25 pm in southern Turkey, with a magnitude of 7.6 on the Richter scale.

On Monday, the Jordanian seismographs recorded 55 earthquakes and aftershocks, from 4:16 in the morning until 9:20 in the morning, according to Sweidan.

And the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs announced, on Monday, the activation of a crisis cell in the operations room of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and another crisis cell in the Jordanian embassies in Ankara and Damascus to check on the Jordanians, according to the official spokesman for the ministry, Sinan Majali.