As-Suwayda, Syria - (Xinhua) After long hours of waiting and another arduous journey, several families from Aleppo Governorate (northern Syria), which was hit by the earthquake on February 6, have arrived in Suwayda Governorate (southern Syria) to feel safe after days of terror. and fatigue.

And in the southwestern countryside of As-Suwayda governorate, specifically in the town of Arra, those families that were affected by the earthquake settled, and were distributed in several houses, to the sound of welcoming expressions from the people who welcomed them to make them feel safe and stable.

Those families affected by the earthquake described the difficult and terrifying moments that they lived through, and the fear that gripped their souls as a result of those tremors that followed on the night of February 6, and at the same time they expressed their happiness to reach As-Suwayda to be with their families again.

In a two-storey house in the southwestern countryside of As-Suwayda, a family from Aleppo, consisting of 7 people, including children of different ages, settled, and they were playing in front of the house cheerfully, after days of fear and terror that haunted them.

"I came from Aleppo with my family and brothers after days of fear and terror that we lived through during the devastating earthquake," Muhannad Youssef Intabi, 42, who lived in Al-Sha'ar neighborhood, told Xinhua, describing those moments. as "difficult".

He continued, saying, "We left our homes in our clothes with our children, and we sat a whole night in the open air, waiting for the day to come to see what happened to our homes," stressing that the tall buildings had fallen and turned into piles of rubble, indicating that their house was cracked and was no longer habitable.

"We arrived in As-Suwayda after days of torment, but now we are with the family and with our children, we feel comfortable," added Intabi, who sat next to his family in his home in Suwayda governorate, stressing that the children began to recover from the consequences of the earthquake.

Entabi, who works in the sewing profession, indicated that his presence here is temporary, and he will return to his city, Aleppo, after the restoration of his house, which was damaged in the earthquake.

In turn, Badr El-Din Entabi (33 years old) said, "We woke up at dawn on February 6 to the sounds of things moving inside our house and the sounds of screaming women and children," noting that "the situation was" terrifying and catastrophic.

The young man in his thirties added that the people in As-Suwayda were like our people, and they provided us with all the necessary relief materials.

In another place, there was another family who also came from Aleppo, and settled in the town of Ura in a large Arab house, to feel calm after days of fatigue.

The young woman, Hana Al-Khatib, 28, told Xinhua News Agency, who used to live in the Salah al-Din neighborhood of Aleppo, that she came to As-Suwayda governorate, where my husband's family lives there, indicating that she arrived in As-Suwayda with her daughters, two days after the earthquake occurred.

The young woman, Hana, while standing in front of her house in As-Suwayda, surrounded by her three children, added, "I and my three daughters were in the house when the earthquake occurred, and my husband is a volunteer soldier who is undergoing a course in Damascus, and the house at those moments was shaking frighteningly, but we did not lose our temper and out of our fear I went down with my daughters to the street." We stayed in the rain and cold and waited for hours, but then another tremor came and we felt afraid and could not go up to the house."

And she continued, saying, "We stayed in the cemetery next to our homes, until the sun came out, and we felt fear and terror," stressing that the situation was catastrophic.

She indicated that her husband came to Aleppo, and he sent her to As-Suwayda, where his family lives.

For his part, Bassam Parsik, the governor of As-Suwayda, told Xinhua, "When the natural disaster occurred, we first contacted the students studying in Aleppo and the rest of the governorates that were exposed to the earthquake, and we secured means of transportation for their return to As-Suwayda," noting that committees were formed to provide relief materials for our people. in the areas affected by the earthquake.

The governor of As-Suwayda added, during a tour he made to some of the families affected by the earthquake, who came to As-Suwayda, that "the people of As-Suwayda were among the first people to contribute to providing relief aid, and we also saw examples of children who gave their savings as aid to the children of Aleppo and Latakia, and this makes us feel that the country will recover soon." ".

He continued, saying, "The people of As-Suwayda governorate were the families of the families who came from the affected governorates, and they provided them with all the necessary housing and food. We, as a responsible party, came to check if they needed anything additional."

Parsec indicated that about 70 people arrived in As-Suwayda governorate as a result of the earthquake.

And the Syrian Ministry of Health announced last Tuesday that the final death toll from the earthquake that struck Syria reached 1,414, while the number of injured reached 2,357.

The ministry's census of earthquake victims only includes the quake-stricken areas under government control.