Some 100,000 people have left their homes in northeastern Syria with a growing number sheltering in shelters and schools following this week's Turkish military incursion in the region, the United Nations said on Friday.
"The humanitarian impact is already being felt. An estimated 100,000 people have already left their homes," the UN said in a statement.
"Most are being sheltered in host communities but an increasing number of them are arriving at collective shelters in Al Hassakeh City and Tal Tamer (and) many are seeking refuge in schools."
The death toll of civilians and fighters further increased on the third day of the Turkish offensive towards the Kurds in Syria. A car bomb went off in the city of Qamishli, and on the Turkish side of the border civilians were killed in a mortar attack, according to several media.
A car bomb went off outside a restaurant in the Syrian Kurdish-controlled city of Qamishli Friday, an official in the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said. The Syrian state broadcaster al-Ikhbariya, quoting its correspondent, said the blast had caused deaths and injuries.
On the other side of the border, two civilians were killed in a mortar attack by Kurdish militants into Turkish territory, state news agency Anadolu said. The deaths occurred when a shell hit a house in the town of Suruc, adjacent to Kobane in Syria which is under the control of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), the agency said.
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