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Syria earthquake: Flooding wipes out vital farmland after dam bursts its banks
13 February 2023 18:06 GMT
Around this time of year, the wheat crops in northern Syria are beginning to take shape, with farmers carefully tending to their yield ahead of the summer harvest.
But after a dam collapsed in northwest Syria following Monday's deadly earthquake, surging floodwater has wiped out thousands of acres of arable land making it impossible to salvage anything from this year's crop and raising fears over food security.
Residents in Idlib province's Al-Taloul village, which sits some 15km away from the Turkish border, told Middle East Eye that their prized wheat and bean fields were completely submerged after the nearby agricultural dam burst its banks.
Read more in this report by Hussam Hammoud and Yousef Gharaibi:
Syria earthquake: Flooding wipes out vital farmland after dam bursts its banks
