In light of the absence of heating and its materials, a child dies in the displacement camps
Displaced child from Khan Shaykhun city died today in Atma Camps for displaced people near the border with Iskenderun, according to sources of the Syrian Observatory, the cause of death was low temperatures, where the camps lack the minimum essential of life as temperatures get very low and there are no proper heating materials, not to mention their high prices.
The Syrian Observatory monitored on the 10th of February 2020 that a child displaced with his family from Maarrat al-Nu’man to the “Qatari camp” in the Azaz countryside died on the 8th of February 2020, because of the cold and frost weather that prevails most the Syrian areas, amid complete lack of any kind of heating and essential of life.
Another child girl died in Al-Zaytun camp in Al-Sheikh Bahr village in Idlib countryside, affected by the burns she had yesterday after her family’s tent caught fire.
Moreover, two other children were injured as their tent caught fire in Darat Izza, west of Aleppo. A few days earlier, a fire broke out in a camp in Kafr Bunni in Idlib countryside leaving a child girl dead.
It is noteworthy that refugee camps see reiterative incidents of tents being caught fire because of using unsafe material for heating. Displaced people resort to insecure ways for heating to overcome the cold snap and low temperature that reaches seven degrees below zero.
Idlib and Aleppo provinces see the ongoing displacement of hundreds of thousands of people into the unknown amid absence of relief support.