ANTAKYA: Another earthquake struck the border region of Türkiye and Syria on Monday (Feb 20), just two weeks after the area was devastated by a larger quake that killed more than 47,000 people and damaged or destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes. Monday's quake, this time with a magnitude of 6.4, was c
ANTAKYA: Another earthquake struck the border region of Türkiye and Syria on Monday , just two weeks after the area was devastated by a larger quake that killed more than 47,000 people and damaged or destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes.
Muna Al Omar said she was in a tent in a park in central Antakya when the ground started heaving again. Red balloons attached to parts of a destroyed apartment building are seen, in the aftermath of the deadly earthquake, in Antakya, Türkiye, on Feb 19, 2023. in 11 earthquake-hit provinces of Türkiye would begin next month.
They include 226,000 women in Türkiye and 130,000 in Syria, about 38,800 of whom will deliver in the next month. Many of them were sheltering in camps or exposed to freezing temperatures and struggling to get food or clean water.In Syria, already shattered by more than a decade of civil war, most deaths have been in the northwest, where the United Nations said 4,525 people were killed.
At the Turkish Cilvegozu border crossing, hundreds of Syrians lined up starting early on Monday to cross.
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