Aid officials say Syria conditions dire, months after quake

By OMAR ALBAM
SALQIN, Syria

Aid officials say that three months after a massive earthquake hit Turkey and Syria, living conditions remain dire in Syria’s rebel-held northwest. The Feb. 6, earthquake killed more than 50,000 people, including over 6,000 in Syria has also displaced hundreds of thousands of people. Three U.N. officials who visited Syria’s Idlib province on Wednesday said some progress has been made but still more needs to be done to help the population in the rebel-held northwest that is home to some 4 million people. A U.N. official says that about 1.1 million people need shelter and others need medical care.