Breaking news: U.N. convoy carrying humanitarian aid enters rebel-held Syria, as toll from quakes in Turkey, Syria rises above 17,000
that more than 1,930 were dead and 2,950 people injured, a tally they expect to rise in coming days as many remain buried beneath the rubble.
Access to the rebel-held region, which was already facing a humanitarian crisis, has been restricted by the Syrian government during the war, and also requires approval from theSix trucks carrying aid crossed into northwest Syria “shortly after noon local time” via the corridor through Turkey on Thursday, said Jens Laerke, spokesman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
He said a shipment hub in southern Turkey was not damaged but the quakes had hit roads in the area used for deliveries. “On the Turkish side, we were able to identify two routes that we will be using from now on because the regular one was too damaged,” he said.Across the border in Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan went to densely populated Gaziantep on Thursday, near the epicenter in southern Turkey, where the quake has decimated residential blocks.
“The situation is very bad,” said Mohammed Farhan Khalid, the leader of a team of Pakistani rescuers in the shattered southeastern city of Adiyaman, who compared the Turkish earthquakes to the 2005 earthquake in Kashmir that killed tens of thousands. “More rescue and relief is required.” A drone video shared by Syria’s White Helmets on Feb. 8 shows people digging mass graves for victims of the earthquake disaster.
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