Updates: 675 dead, thousands injured in Syria’s Jindires
AFRIN, Syria (North Press) – At least 675 people have been killed and thousands more have been wounded so far as a result of the devastating earthquake that struck the town of Jindires in the countryside of Afrin, north of Aleppo.
The so-called Jindires Local Council, which is controlled by the Turkish-backed Interim Government said on Tuesday that 257 buildings have collapsed as a result of the earthquake.
The council added that thousands of families are homeless in freezing winter weather without food and water.
The death toll of the devastating earthquakes in Syria has reached 2.098, while 4.106 have been injured, according to the Ministry of Health of the Syrian government, the Syrian opposition in Idlib, and the Health Board of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES).
The death toll is expected to rise as rescue operations in search for survivors under the rubble of the collapsed buildings continue.
Exclusive sources at the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey, north of Idlib, said that no regional or international humanitarian aid has crossed yet under the pretext that roads have been damaged. However, they say, the roads are passable and that there is no obstacle to the entry of aid.
On Tuesday, rescue operations in Syrian opposition-held areas in northwest Syria had not received any foreign support, a source from the Emergency rescue teams in Idlib told North Press.
On Monday at 4:17 am, Syria and Turkey were rocked by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake whose epicenter was located near Gaziantep, Turkey, and killed thousands of people in the both countries.