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Earthquake aid reaches NW Syria via newly opened crossing

Trucks part of an aid convoy cross from Turkey into rebel-held north Syria through the Bab al-Salam crossing [Bakr Aalkasem/AFP]

An aid convoy has passed through a re-opened border crossing into rebel-held northwestern Syria, where help has been slow to arrive since last week’s earthquake.

As hopes fade of finding people alive under the debris more than 200 hours after the 7.8-magnitude quake struck, the focus has switched to providing food and shelter to the vast numbers of survivors. The death toll in the region surpassed 40,000 on Tuesday.

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