'It's heartbreaking': Cork priest seeks donations for quake survivors in Syria

Rescue teams carry the body of a victim from a destroyed building in the costal town of Jableh, Syria. Picture: AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki

A Cork priest who gave a hard-hitting eye-witness account of death and destruction in earthquake-hit Syria has called for cash donations to help people worst hit by the disaster.

Fr Tony O’Riordan, who is leading the Jesuits' response to the crisis in Aleppo, has described seeing a chilling image of a large articulated truck with bodies in white bags.