Fire Razes 50 Refugees' Tents, Kills Two Syrians in Baalbek
Fire has swept through the tents of Syrian refugees in the northeastern town of al-Yammouneh at dawn leaving two killed and several others wounded, the National News Agency reported on Monday.
Two Syrian refugees identified by their initials as Aa.M. and W.Aa were killed after the fire razed through around 50 resettlement tents, said NNA.
It "killed a 46-year-old man as well as a boy aged seven or eight", deputy mayor Hussein Shreif said.
It was not immediately clear what started the fire, he said.
The Civil Defense fire team were dispatched to the area of the camp and managed to extinguish the fire that sent heavy black smoke into the sky, it added.
Fires have often erupted in Syrian refugee camps, where many depend on international aid for their survival.
Around 1.5 million Syrians have sought shelter in Lebanon from the seven-year civil war raging next door, with many living in camps in the Bekaa Valley in the east of the country.
Source: Naharnet
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