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3 Syrian refugee children killed in tent fire in Turkey

Xinhua, March 29, 2016 Adjust font size:

Three Syrian refugee children were killed and six others injured on Tuesday in a tent fire in southeastern Turkey, private Dogan news agency reported.

The fire broke out in a refugee tent in a tent city in Derik, a town in Mardin province, the report said.

Only last Friday, one Syrian refugee child was killed in another tent fire in the same tent city, where 21 tents were destroyed.

The Turkish authorities have had difficulties in meeting the growing demand of the Syrian refugees, now numbering some 2.5 million. Endit