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NW Syria’s stricken residents come together to feed rescue teams

The residents of the area have banded together to buy as much food as they can for the rescue teams [Ahmad al-Salim/Al Jazeera]

Idlib, northwestern Syria – For the past week, Ahmad al-Najjar has been waking up early to go out and buy a load of sandwiches to deliver to rescue workers in the parts of northwestern Syria that were hit by a series of catastrophic earthquakes.

Volunteers and Syrian Civil Defence rescuers have been desperately seeking for survivors in the rubble of flattened buildings since the initial magnitude 7.8 tremor shook southern Turkey and northwestern Syria pre-dawn on February 6, followed by hundreds of aftershocks and another powerful quake of magnitude 7.6.

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