Turkey-Syria Earthquake: A BBC reporter travels to see a Syrian city already damaged by civil war.
Aleppo is full of ruins. The Syrianเกม ยิน ปลาcity suffered serious losses from years of civil war. before the earthquake repeats The BBC was one of the first foreign media outlets to report on the city controlled by the Syrian government. By now more than 400 people have died.
As of Feb. 11, the death toll in the quake in both southern Turkey and northern Syria exceeded 25,000.
As we traveled into the earthquake-affected areas It's hard to tell if buildings collapse is from a 12-year civil war or from an earthquake earlier this week.
We see locals waiting in a cold city square surrounded by rubble. Many have blankets or winter coats.
in Al-Shahar district east of town There was the sound of people trying to dig up rubble in search of surviving victims. Surrounding were multi-storey buildings that had crumbled to the ground.
“We know a person who lives on the first floor. 'He didn't have time to run away from his house'…" A woman tells us, pointing to the ruins. saying that he died along with his wife and children
Only one daughter survived and is now in the hospital.
The quake brought further grief in a country already in crisis.
The death toll in government-controlled and rebel-held areas totals more than 4,000, with more than 7,000 reported injured or their whereabouts unknown.
Much of Aleppo has been devastated by a civil war that has started in 2011, when peaceful protests against President Bashar al-Assad turned violent.
Although there are attempts to rebuild parts of the city. Aleppo also bears the scars of fighting between the Russian-backed government and the rebels.
Rescue teams now have to tear down even the standing buildings for fear they will collapse later.
