Dancing On Ice star Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu has make a desperate plea on behalf of her home country of Turkey.
The Love Island star, 28, made an emotional appeal on her Instagram on Tuesday after the death toll following the huge earthquake which struck south-eastern Türkiye and northern Syria hit 5,000.
A 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit near Gaziantep, Turkey, in the early hours of Monday, followed by another 7.5-magnitude tremor just after midday.
The quakes caused widespread destruction and were felt in nearby countries.
Ekin-Su took to her social media to beg her 3.2million followers to donate to a fundraising page.
Sharing an infographic of the death toll alongside an image of decimated buildings, Ekin-Su wrote: “I’m pleading we help people are dying! Help stop the suffer in Turkey and Syria please help.
“I have donated as much as I can and we need to spread awareness.” [sic]
Her plea comes after the Foreign Secretary confirmed that three British nationals are missing following the quake.
Making a statement in the Commons, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly confirmed that three British nationals are missing and a further 35 are affected. He did not specify whether they were in Syria or Türkiye.
More than a day after the powerful earthquake struck the region, people are continuing to pull out bodies from under the rubble with their bare freezing hands.
Updating the Commons on the UK response to the Turkey and Syria earthquake, James Cleverly said more than 6,000 buildings have collapsed and electricity and gas infrastructure has been severely damaged.
He said many of the 3.5 million Syrian refugees hosted by Turkey reside in the affected provinces and that the country is requesting international assistance "on a scale that matches the enormity of the situation that they are facing."
Turkey’s vice president, Fuat Oktay, said 3,419 people had been killed, with a further 20,534 injured.
The number of confirmed deaths in Syria rose to 1,602, bringing the death toll in both countries to 5,021.
Turkey’s disaster management agency said it had 11,342 reports of collapsed buildings, of which 5,775 had been confirmed.
