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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Miriam Burrell

Briton in Syria tells of survivors’ ‘overwhelming sense of fear’ one month on from deadly earthquake

A British man helping humanitarian aid efforts in Syria one month on from the deadly earthquake says families are too scared to move back into damaged homes amid ongoing aftershocks.

Unicef worker Joe English, from Oxford, told the Standard that overcrowded camps filled with hundreds of families left displaced by the 7.8 magnitude quake on February 6 are desperately trying to avoid a cholera outbreak and get children back to education.

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