50,000+ people have been killed in Syria and Turkey by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake, one of the most powerful quakes in the region for more than a century.
The powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake reached more than 21,000 death toll in Syria and Turkey, with thousands reported injured. Meanwhile, the United States will provide the affected countries with $85 million in humanitarian assistance. Read here.
AMMAN Doctor Mohamad Zitoun spent years treating casualties from the Syrian war but has never experienced anything like the number of injured and the scale of their injuries following Monday's (Feb 6) devastating earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria. "This is a huge calamity. I lived through shelling and survived massacres. This is totally different, terrifying and horrific," said.
Doctor Mohamad Zitoun spent years treating casualties from the Syrian war but has never experienced anything like the number of injured and the scale of their injuries following Monday's devastating earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria. The hospital is in an opposition-held enclave in northwest Syria, an area which bore the brunt of Russian and Syrian bombing during the country's conflict, which killed hundreds of thousands, and where the towns are heavily populated with those who fled other areas of Syria. Medics have rushed to treat whole families brought to hospital with head injuries, multiple fractures, spinal cord breaks, organ failure and severe crush injuries.