The Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence on Tuesday said it was deploying a specialized 12-member search and rescue team as part of the official Bangladeshi response to the deadly earthquake in Turkey, adding to the thousands of rescue workers trying to reach the devastated region.
It will join an Armed Forces team formed on the instructions of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Earlier in the day, Turkish Ambassador to Bangladesh Mustafa Osman Turan said the Bangladesh government had offered help and was planning to send search and rescue teams on Wednesday.
Monday's quakes cut a swath of destruction that stretched hundreds of kilometres across southeastern Turkey and neighbouring Syria, toppling thousands of buildings.
Governments around the world were quick to respond to requests for international assistance to Turkey and Syria.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan declared a state of emergency in 10 provinces devastated by the two earthquakes that had killed more than 5,100 people and left a trail of destruction across a wide area.
A day after the quakes hit, rescuers working in harsh conditions were struggling to dig people out of the rubble of collapsed buildings in a "race against time."
As the scale of the disaster became ever more apparent, the death toll looked likely to rise considerably. One United Nations official said it was feared thousands of children might have been killed.
Thousands of buildings were toppled, hospitals and schools wrecked and tens of thousands of people were injured or left homeless in several Turkish and Syrian cities by the magnitude 7.8 quake - the deadliest in Turkey since 1999 - and a second one hours later.
