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2019-01-13 15:37:50
Damascus: A Syrian mother has attempted to burn herself and her children to death at a refugee camp in eastern Syria after she failed to find food for her family for three straight days, a civil defence spokesman says.
The remote Rukban refugee camp near the Syria-Jordan border was cut off from humanitarian support for months at a time during 2018.Credit:AP
Sundus Fathallah, 28, set herself and her three starving children on fire inside a tent at Rukban refugee camp on Saturday, spokesman Khaled al-Ali told the DPA news agency.
Other refugees at the camp put out the fire and took the woman and her children to hospital, the spokesman said on Sunday.
The woman and her infant were seriously hurt, while two older children suffered minor injuries.