Two powerful earthquakes devastated a section of northern Syria that was already reeling from war, a mass exodus of its people and a grinding economic crisis
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake, followed by a second of magnitude 7.5, struck Turkey and northern Syria on Monday, killing more than 2,300 people. The quakes destroyed thousands of buildings across a region housing millions of Turkish citizens and displaced Syrians. Photo: Juma Mohammad/Zuma Pressmorning, Jihan Bayram ran out of her house in her pajamas to a parking lot, where a crowd gathered.
Mothers warmed their babies in blankets in the freezing night air. “I thought we were going to die,” said Ms. Bayram, 33 years old, a teacher who lived in Aleppo through a decade of civil war.
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