ICRC president visits quake-hit areas of Aleppo

The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) visited the city of Aleppo in Syria on Friday with a team of ICRC workers to see the damage caused by the 7.8 magnitude earthquake earlier in the week.

Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, President of the ICRC said "We are working closely with our partners from the Red Crescent and Red Cross, and I salute them for having been there working with us tirelessly since Monday. But what is most important now is that we gain access to all parts of northern Syria to help people who need our urgent support. Impartial humanitarian assistance should never be hindered, nor politicized. We have to get access, we have to be able to reach the affected population."

The president of ICRC met with homeless families who had lost family members at one of the mosques that had been used as a shelter since Monday.