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Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Group says 270,000 displaced from Raqqa need aid
An international charity group says tens of thousands of people who fled the northern Syrian city of Raqqa are in bad need of aid and that the “camps are bursting at the seams.”
Save the Children’s statement comes as US-backed Syrian fighters said they liberated Raqqa.
The city suffered major destruction since early June when the offensive against the Islamic State group there began. The charity says some 270,000 people who fled the Raqqa fighting are still in critical need of aid.
With the high levels of destruction reported in and around Raqqa, most families have nowhere to return home and are likely to stay in camps for months or years to come.
— AP
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