UN: Road leading to aid corridor between Turkey and Syria is already dead

The road leading to the only humanitarian aid border between Turkey and Syria is now fleeting after it was damaged by Monday's earthquake, a UN official said.

Muhandad Hadi, the UN humanitarian regional co-ordinator for the Syria crisis, said the aid should start moving through Thursday, but his team is still working on how to move trucks from within Syria to the Turkish border.

Passing Bab al-Hawa is the only humanitarian aid corridor approved by the United Nations between Syria and Turkey, writes CNN.

Hadi said the UN is also working with its partners in Damascus to establish cross-border “activity, referring to the shift of aid from the country's government-controlled areas to areas northwest of Syria that are out of government control.

He called on all member states to have “primarily the interest of people”, but did not say sanctions should be lifted. The Syrian government has called on the United States and the European Union to lift post-crisis sanctions.

This earthquake, at the top of this crisis, is like the perfect storm that no one has ever wanted”, Hades said.