MORE than 46 000 people have been killed by the two earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria and thousands of people have been displaced.
As part of South Africa’s aid effort, the SAPS’s K-9 search-and-rescue team was deployed to Türkiye. The team consisted of five K-9 dogs, their handlers as well as a team leader. They departed for Türkiye on February 9 and returned to South Africa on Saturday.
The team led