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‘It’s heartbreaking’: In Syria’s rebel zones, volunteers dig mass graves for quake victims

Screenshot of a video showing residents digging a mass grave in Urm al-Kubra, a town in western Aleppo governorate, Tuesday, February 7, 2023. © Twitter / @bkdadaksa

As rescue workers continued to search for survivors of the earthquake that happened on February 6, residents of Syria’s northwestern opposition-controlled territories were forced to start digging mass graves to bury victims. In this virtually cut-off region, morgues have become overcrowded and equipment is hard to come by.

Rescue workers raced against time on Thursday, February 9 to find survivors of the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck southern Turkey and northwestern Syria early in the morning of February 6.

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