Relatives surround a truck carrying bodies of Syrians killed in an earthquake in Turkey, upon their arrival through the border crossing of the Cilvegozu border gate, Turkey, February 8, 2023. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
CILVEGOZU, Turkey (Reuters) - They arrived at the border in taxis, run-down vans and in piles atop flatbed trucks: black body bags carrying Syrian refugees killed by the earthquake in Turkey, now being taken to final resting places in their war-ravaged homeland.
Relatives clutched paperwork issued by local authorities that would let the dead – but not their living relatives – pass into Aleppo province through Turkey's Cilvegozu border-crossing, closed to regular traffic since Syria's conflict began 12 years ago.
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