Syrian Girl Dead in Nabaa Fire
A Syrian girl died on Wednesday after a fire engulfed an apartment in the area of al-Nabaa in the Metn district, the state-run National News Agency reported.
NNA said Civil Defense firefighters doused the blaze and rescued five other Syrians.
In June, a major fire broke at a Syrian refugee encampment in the al-Jrahiyeh area near the Bekaa town of al-Marj, killing a baby and injuring several people.
The incident was not the first time that fires have ripped through the often overcrowded and poorly constructed informal housing in which many Syrian refugees in Lebanon live.
Lebanon is hosting around 1.5 million registered Syrian refugees, though the total number in the country may be even higher.
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