Search operations to pull up more survivors trapped in the rubble of buildings are nearing completion in rebel-held northwest Syria, eight days after a devastating earthquake, officials said today. White Helmetsthe rescue organization operating there.

THE research business “She is nearing her end. The indications we have are that there are no more (survivors), but we are trying to do our final checks in all places,” said Raed al-Saleh, the head of the White Helmets group that conducted the major rescue operations in the affected area controlled by the rebels.

The organization, which has rescuers across the region where entire neighborhoods and villages were leveled by the quake, noted that its members are also collecting the names of those missing in the enclave, where, according to its most recent account, the dead amount to 2,274, while the wounded amount to thousands.