This Syrian man fled his house with his family when the earthquake struck. He then returned to save his pet birds and brought them to his tent at a camp for the displaced in Jandaris
"We rented this place as an elite place, a safe place. How do I know that the contractor built it this way? ... Everyone is looking to make a profit. They're all guilty," she said.
The Syrian government says the death toll in territory it controls is 1,414. More than 4,000 fatalities have been reported in the rebel-held northwest, but rescuers say nobody has been found alive there since Feb. 9. Deliveries from Turkey were severed completely in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, when a route used by the United Nations was temporarily blocked. Earlier this week, Assad granted approval for two additional crossings to be opened.
In southeast Turkey, heavy machinery was trying to clear mounds of debris that block numerous towns and cities.that the direct cost of the destruction of physical structures in Turkey could amount to 2.5% of growth domestic product, or $25 billion.
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