Walking around Al Aqaba neighbourhood in #Aleppo today as dusk fell. Every narrow street was blocked with fallen buildings, piled high with random household items, huge concrete cross beams snapped and thrown to earth at impossible angles. A young man told us his whole family home had collapsed. He was not there at the time. His handsome Husky somehow survived on the roof. Everywhere devastation.

We asked him how he was feeling. He said "the war was much easier than this".

We clambered over unstable heaps of stone, children's dolls, metal water tanks flung from collapsed rooves. The young man told us that people fled their homes in pitch dark only to be buried under the walls that were falling all around them. I can't imagine the terror. A family were discussing at the foot of the hill. They argued over how long the quake lasted. One minute or two, five? The one guy said "all this destruction [from God] in such a short time and still we didn't learn".