AANES reveals final outcome of quake impacts in Syria’s Shahba Region
ALEPPO, Syria (North Press) – The council of Shahba Region, in the northern countryside of Aleppo, affiliated with Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) revealed on Tuesday the final outcome of the impacts of the earthquake that hit the region on Feb. 6.
The council said, in a statement, that ten people were injured, including two critical cases, about one thousand houses sustained damages, as some of them became inhabitable, and three schools were significantly destroyed.
The northern countryside of Aleppo Governorate, also known as Shahba Region, houses IDPs of the Kurdish region of Afrin, which was occupied by Turkey in 2018.
The Turkish operation caused the displacement of about 300.000 original Kurdish inhabitants of Afrin, who sheltered in some 40 villages and five camps in the Shahba region.
The region has witnessed a mass displacement of 20 thousand quake-affected people from Aleppo, the statement added.
The AANES has distributed 400 tents to shelter the affected families and 25 liters of heating oil to each family as an emergency response, according to the statement.
The statement said that 420 tents are being set up in the camps of Sardam, al-Awda, Barkhodan to receive new comers.
The earthquake “aggravated the suffering of the forcibly displaced people from regions occupied by Turkey and its affiliated factions, also known as Syrian National Army (SNA), in addition to the embargo imposed by Syrian government,” the statement read.