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Syrians suffering through years of war, displacement, and brutal weather are now facing the aftermath of a devastating earthquake that killed hundreds of people.⁠

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A steady stream of injured flowed into an overwhelmed hospital in the town of Darkush, in rebel-held northwestern Syria, after the deadly earthquake struck on Monday. Mothers hovered over crying children.⁠

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Amid the chaos, one man sat with a dazed expression, his face covered with abrasions.⁠

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The man, Osama Abdul Hamid, barely made it out alive with his wife and four children from his apartment building in the nearby village of Azmarin. Many of their neighbours were not so lucky.⁠

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“The building is four stories, and from three of them, no one made it out,” Abdul Hamid said, breaking down in tears.⁠

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The quake caused total or partial damage to buildings in at least 58 villages, towns and cities in northwestern Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a United Kingdom-based war monitor.⁠

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