Tripoli- Lebanon (The Daily Star)- A fire broke out at a Syrian refugee camp in the northern town of Minyeh Thursday, destroying 13 tents and lightly injuring two people, three days after another fire killed a refugee baby in an east Lebanon camp.
Firefighters rushed to the scene and put out the fire, which burned 13 of the 30 tents in the camp, while police investigated the cause of the fire.
According to a security source, preliminary investigations revealed that an electric circuit was to blame.
The two injured refugees were moved to al-Khair Hospital in the same area.
The fire comes three days after a more tragic fire ripped through a camp hosting hundreds of refugees in the Bekaa village of al-Marj, killing at least one baby and wounding 11 others.
Monday’s incident came one week after an abandoned Syrian refugee camp burned down in the same town.
The incidents are the latest in a recent string of similar tragedies to befall the estimated 1.5 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon, many of whom live in overcrowded camps and run-down buildings.
Last month, three Syrian children were killed when a fire broke out in their room of their apartment complex in the Zahle town of Barr Elias.
A week before that, three other Syrian children were injured when a fire broke out at a four-story building in the southern city of Sidon.
In March, two Syrian children burned to death when a fire broke out in their house in Dohat Aramoun, south of Beirut.
That incident came one month after three Syrian children died in a fire at their tent in a refugee camp in Bhenin, north Lebanon.
Firefighters rushed to the scene and put out the fire, which burned 13 of the 30 tents in the camp, while police investigated the cause of the fire.
According to a security source, preliminary investigations revealed that an electric circuit was to blame.
The two injured refugees were moved to al-Khair Hospital in the same area.
The fire comes three days after a more tragic fire ripped through a camp hosting hundreds of refugees in the Bekaa village of al-Marj, killing at least one baby and wounding 11 others.
Monday’s incident came one week after an abandoned Syrian refugee camp burned down in the same town.
The incidents are the latest in a recent string of similar tragedies to befall the estimated 1.5 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon, many of whom live in overcrowded camps and run-down buildings.
Last month, three Syrian children were killed when a fire broke out in their room of their apartment complex in the Zahle town of Barr Elias.
A week before that, three other Syrian children were injured when a fire broke out at a four-story building in the southern city of Sidon.
In March, two Syrian children burned to death when a fire broke out in their house in Dohat Aramoun, south of Beirut.
That incident came one month after three Syrian children died in a fire at their tent in a refugee camp in Bhenin, north Lebanon.
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