Julien Moreau with AFP 4 p.m., February 9, 2023
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit southeastern Turkey and neighboring northern Syria on Monday.
The toll is growing day by day and now exceeds the threshold of 17,500 dead.
Disasters accumulate in Syria, the village of Tloul, in the northwest, found itself flooded after the collapse of a dam.
Most residents of the village of Tloul in northwestern Syria, hit by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake, deserted their flooded village on Thursday after an earth dam collapsed the aftermath of the earthquake that shook the region, noted an AFP correspondent.
In this village located in the north of the province of Idlib, near the Turkish border, the water partially covered the houses and the trunks of the fruit trees, while the fields of wheat and beans were totally submerged.
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The streets of the village were also flooded, due to the collapse of the earth dam located on a tributary of the Orontes, along the village.
Dozens of families leave the village to seek refuge, for the most part, in a neighboring locality.
"Our situation is dramatic. Look at the water around us," said Louan Hussein Hamadé, one of the few residents to have remained in the village.
"The earth dam collapsed as a result of the earthquake," he added.
"Everyone left except a few young men."
The earthquake that devastated Syrian and Turkish regions on Monday killed more than 17,500 people, including more than 3,200 in Syria, according to a provisional report.
The search for survivors under the rubble continues in Syria and neighboring Turkey, but their chance of survival is dwindling hour by hour.