More than 5,000 people in Syria have been killed by the earthquakes. Part of the reason the toll is smaller than in Turkey is because many of the people there were refugees living in tents
was deafening. Just over the border in the Syrian town of Jandaris, the silence was eerie.
One of these cries came from a 14-year-old boy called Mouaz. He had been fast asleep when the ground beneath him started shaking in the early hours of Monday morning. In March 2018 residents of the siege were offered a deal: they could leave their homes and take a bus to the rebel-held north-west, or they could stay and suffer the consequences. In the past such deals had been a prelude to a gruesome assault, and Mouaz’s family took up the offer to go north.Aya was found in the rubble with her umbilical cord still attached to the body of her dead mother. She is now being cared for in hospital .
The devastation wrought on communities here is still immense, and chillingly indiscriminate. A newborn baby girl pulled alive from the rubble of Jandaris gave the world an image of hope. But just a few streets away from her home I met a man called Ahmad, who had found his 20-day-old baby crushed by a brick. Around 4,000 families in Jandaris have lost their homes, the mayor told me. Turkey has donated some tents, but there are only 1,200 to go around.
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