The United Nations office in Syria announced on Monday that it was working to coordinate assistance in all areas of the provinces affected by the earthquake, with its epicenter in Turkey, which killed more than 600 people in both countries.
“The UN in Syria expresses its deepest condolences and solidarity with all those affected by the earthquake this morning and is already working to coordinate assistance in all areas of our activities in Syria, in the affected provinces of Aleppo, Hama, Idlib and Latakia,” it says. in the message. UN office on its official Twitter account.
The Syrian Ministry of Health has confirmed another 237 dead and more than 600 injured in the provinces of Hama, Tartous, Latakia and parts of Aleppo it controls, while the White Helmets, a rapid response team operating exclusively in opposition-controlled areas of Syria. , indicated that more than 120 people had died in the northwestern provinces of Idlib and Aleppo.