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Business Standard
He said the UN estimated that 5.37 million people affected by the quake would need shelter assistance across the country. Meanwhile, at least 2,166 people were killed in opposition-held northwest Syria by the major earthquake, Syrian White Helmets have said. "The delivery of urgent supplies to impacted rebel-held areas of northwest Syria has been complicated amid a long-running civil war. We've had economic shocks, COVID and are now in the depths of winter, with blizzards raging in the affected areas. This is just a microcosm of what is happening throughout the affected areas," he said.
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