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Flooding in the village of Tloul in far northwest Syria
Photo: MUHAMMAD HAJ KADOUR / AFP
Thousands of people were killed and tens of thousands more injured in the severe earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.
A number of survivors have had no roof over their heads since the disaster, and the extent of the damage is only gradually becoming apparent.
An incident from Syria now shows that the danger in the region from the consequences of the earthquake is still high.
As the AFP news agency reports, a Syrian village was partially flooded in the immediate vicinity of the Turkish border because a dam that had apparently been damaged by the quake ruptured.
Accordingly, dozens of families had to leave their homes and flee to nearby towns.
Photos and video footage showed the flooding.
Apparently no one was hurt by the flooding.
The AP news agency also reported, citing local residents, that some buildings that had survived the quake were flooded by the water.
Local residents would have landed their belongings on vehicles.
For the people in the region, which was already devastated by the civil war, the precarious situation is further aggravated.
Unlike in Turkey, the international rescue efforts in the neighboring country, which is partly controlled by the dictator Bashar al-Assad, are only sluggish.
On Thursday, the first truck convoy from the United Nations arrived in the civil war country from Turkey via the only open border crossing, Bab al-Hawa.
The areas in the north of the country, where the floods have now also occurred, are controlled from different sides.
After more than a decade of fighting and air raids, many residential areas, hospitals and other facilities were destroyed before the earthquake.
Also on equipment to rescue people who have been buried.
"We're missing the essentials.
We need big cranes to remove large chunks of (debris),” Munir Mustafa, deputy head of the White Helmets rescue organization, told the dpa news agency.
After the devastating earthquakes, the death toll in Turkey and Syria has now risen to more than 17,000.
There are now 14,014 dead in Turkey alone, said President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
More than 63,000 people were injured.
At least 3,200 deaths were recently reported from Syria.
The actual number of deaths in both countries is probably much higher.
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