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Syrians begin arriving at new #Jordan refugee camp
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The United Nations said on Monday Jordan’s third refugee camp, Azraq, had received its first group of Syrians ahead of its official opening later this week. “A few hundred Syrian #refugees started to arrive in Azraq camp this morning,” Ali Bibi, spokesman for the UN refugee agency UNHCR in Jordan, told AFP. He added that the official inauguration of the camp will be on Wednesday. UNHCR representative in the kingdom Andrew Harper tweeted that “while official opening of Azraq camp is on the 30th, the first 200 arrived this am.” read more

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Syrian children, father killed in #Jordan refugee camp accident
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Two Syrian refugee children and their father died of their injuries on Tuesday after a cooking gas cylinder exploded in their tent in a camp in Jordan, officials said. The explosion happened in the Zaatari camp, 10 kilometers east of the northern city of Mafraq, which is home to more than 100,000 refugees, a security official said. “Yasin al-Hariri, 40, his son, eight, and daughter, three, died today after suffering from severe burns when a gas cylinder exploded last night and caused a fire,” said the head of the government-run hospital in Mafraq, Samir Mashaqbeh. read more

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