Mateusz Morawiecki, Poland's prime minister, ordered state services to increase their readiness after a 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck Slovakia on Monday evening.
The Polish president and prime minister have said that Poland is ready to provide any aid necessary to Morocco after the country has been hit by a deadly earthquake.
Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, has conveyed his condolences to Morocco after a powerful quake hit the country late on Friday and left over 800 people dead.
There are no Poles among the victims of the earthquake in Morocco, according to reports from the Polish consular service, the Polish foreign minister said on Saturday morning.
The four-year-old Golden Retriever named Orion was one of eight dogs with the Polish HUSAR rescue team sent to the Turkish town of Besni just hours after the first quake hit.
Specialist medical equipment, medicines, dressings, power generators, oil heaters and tents are among aid sent by Poland to earthquake-stricken Turkey.
The leader of Poland's HUSAR rescue team sent to help hunt for survivors of the earthquake in Turkey has told PAP of the emotion felt at rescuing 12 people.
Poland’s Husar search and rescue team will return home on Wednesday after more than a week aiding the rescue effort in earthquake-stricken Turkey.
Twelve people have been pulled alive from ruined buildings in Turkey by a Polish search and rescue team, a spokesman for Poland's State Fire Service has said.
A team of Polish Army doctors, nurses and paramedics has already arrived in Turkey to help treat victims of the earthquake that devastated the south-eastern part of the country and northern Syria on Monday.
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