Latakia - SANA
The efforts of the civil society, including individuals and associations, joined forces to supplement the efforts mobilized by the Lattakia Governorate at all levels and sectors, to face the consequences of the earthquake, which left hundreds of victims and wounded, as well as great material damage.
In the Snobar Jableh area, in which a number of buildings collapsed as a result of the earthquake, dozens of its residents rushed to support the civil defense teams and the army to contribute to the rescue work, as Ammar Muhammad, Hussein and Zain Ali mentioned in a statement to SANA with the aim of carrying out their humanitarian and moral duty towards their brothers and their countrymen.
As for Asef Mustafa - who works on Trix - he contributed to the recovery of the victims from under the rubble, because the injured Syrians are the same. As for the feeling of the magnitude of the tragedy, it was the first thing that prompted the two young men, Ahmed and Ali Muhammad, to contribute to transporting the wounded to hospitals, because the magnitude of the event prevents any negligence or inaction.
In the town of Al-Hanadi, where three buildings were destroyed, citizens Ali Al-Dikra, Haitham Mia and Ali Arous supported the rescue teams, and actively contributed to removing the rubble and mitigating the damage.
In the Damsarkho neighborhood of Lattakia, which witnessed the fall of a number of buildings, SANA team monitored the efforts of the citizens, Yazan Ghosa, Yassar Dali, Alaa Rajab, Osama Baghdad, Maher Al-Hajj, and Najdat Shahrour, in removing the rubble and treating the injured, in a scene that embodies the cohesion of the Syrian society and its solidarity with the state agencies and institutions.
In addition to the citizens' spontaneous rush to help, civil associations and volunteer teams rushed to Demsarkho to support the firefighting, police and ambulance system, as 22 volunteers from the Basma Qalb team went to one of the dilapidated buildings to provide food and clothes, and distribute them to the crews and people present in the place since the early hours of dawn, with Continuing work on collecting food baskets to be presented to families who have lost their homes.
Dr. Muhannad Ahmed, the team leader, pointed out in a statement to SANA that the people in the region responded to the assistance and provided psychological and moral support to the affected families, stressing the unity of the injured and the morals and noble values of the Syrians.
Ahmed confirmed that the youth of the team are staying in the place to support the rescue teams in digging and removing the rubble, and to make sure that all people are removed from under the rubble, especially since the people refuse to leave the place until they are assured of the fate of their family members.
Citizen Yemen Abboud, who was eagerly waiting for the early morning hours to join the team after collecting in-kind aid from foodstuffs and clothes to be presented to the affected families, stressed the importance of volunteer work and the great role that volunteers play in such humanitarian cases.
In the city of Jableh, the people mobilized from the first moments of the earthquake with the rescue teams to contribute to removing the rubble, removing the victims, searching for survivors and rescuing the injured to hospitals.
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