'If we were in hell before the earthquake, we're now in the deepest levels of hell', said Fr Tony O'Riordan.
AN IRISH PRIEST working in a disaster-hit area of Syria has described the scenes as “the deepest levels of hell”.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s World at One, Fr O’Riordan of the Jesuit Refugee Service recalled a conversation he had with a leader of the Service’s work in Aleppo. While Fr O’Riordan noted that there are “over 120 emergency shelters, schools and mosques and churches that people have taken refuge”, he warned that “many people are sleeping in cars and sleeping outdoors in sub-zero temperatures.”
“People are receiving blankets, people are receiving some food in the shelters, but hygiene and access to showers and things like this are patchy, to say the least.” He added that the level of response “needs to be ramped up, particularly in light of the fact that we’re in the coldest period of winter”.
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