1,745 migrants the quake killed in Türkiye transported to Syria

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The number of bodies of Syrians who died in Türkiye due to the February 6 earthquakes and were transported to Syria from five different border crossings is now 1,745, announced Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).

Accordingly, 1,522 bodies were transported through Bab Al-Hawa (Cilvegözü) crossing, 166 bodies were transported through Bab Al-Salama (Öncüpınar) crossing, 22 bodies were transported through Al-Ra'i (Çobaney) crossing, 20 bodies were transported through Jarabulus crossing and 15 bodies were transported through Al-Hamam crossing in Jendires countryside.

Migrants in earthquake-hit areas returning to Syria

It was also reported that hundreds of migrants from Syria who lost their family members in the Feb. 6 earthquakes were returning to Syria.

Ahmed, a young person from Syria told the news outlet that he first sent the dead bodies of his wife and five children that he had lost in the earthquakes and now he was returning to Syria. They were forced to migrate from their village in the south of Aleppo five years ago and Ahmed worked hard as a construction worker while in Türkiye. When his family died in Türkiye, there is nothing left that ties him to the country, Ahmed told the outlet.

The Syrian Network for Human Rights announced that 3,841 Syrians died in Türkiye in the earthquakes while Syrian activist Taha el Gazi stated that 6,100 migrants have lost their lives so far in this country where they had come escaping the war. (HA/PE)