Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday that Canada is ready to provide help in the aftermath of the earthquake, which has left thousands dead.
A Victoria woman says she spent a sleepless night worrying about family living in the region affected by the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Turkey and northwestern Syria early Monday, causing extensive damage and thousands of deaths.
“I just shook. I couldn’t sleep all night,” said Naeman, who runs catering business. “I was so worried.”“She said that she was safe, but that her house in the city of Idlib was extensively damaged and she couldn’t return home,” said Naeman, who now lives in Victoria with husband Fadi Saidissa and their sons, age 17 and 15. “They said that the damage was worse than the war, worse than anything they had ever experienced.
Hanan said that after the original tremor, up to 40 aftershocks rocked the city and parts of the Aleppo countryside. The federal Conservatives would support “any effort by Canadians and the Canadian government to provide assistance,” Conservative foreign affairs critic MP Michael Chong said on Twitter.
“We are seeing families are looking for their missing loved ones who [are] left under the debris of collapsed buildings. We know that people, even those that their buildings haven’t collapsed, don’t feel safe to go back,” he said in a phone interview from Damascus.Adham said there was a need for financial aid to help respond to the situation, noting that the quake also came during a harsh winter that could complicate relief efforts.
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