Child Dies in Fire at Syrian Refugee Camp in Tyre
A child died on Sunday in a fire that erupted at a Syrian refugee camp in the Ras al-Ain region south of the southern city of Tyre, reported the National News Agency.
It said that one-and-a-half-year-old Hammoudeh Omar al-Kamel was killed in the fire that erupted due to faulty electrical wires.
Three people were wounded in the blaze, reported Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3).
It also destroyed a number of tents in the camp.
Civil Defense teams and army units have since arrived at the scene to extinguish the fire.
On Friday, a Syrian infant died from cold weather in the northern Akkar province.
Three-month-old Mahmoud Raad, whose parents are Syrian refugees, died in a room where his family was staying in the town of Akroum.
Source: Agence France Presse, Naharnet
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