Militants Burning Bodies of Refugees Left without Help in Syria’s Rukban

TEHRAN (defapress)- Militants are burning the bodies of refugees who died in the Rukban camp in Southeastern Homs after they had not received help from the last humanitarian convoy which the terrorists did not let pass, a military-diplomatic source told journalists on Saturday.

News ID: 74637

Date: 29 December 2018 - 14:08

"Our means of monitoring are registering dense smoke near the Rukban camp where the tent camps of the militants are located. They are destroying something actively there. There is every reason to believe that these may be the Rukban refugees who did not receive any help from the last humanitarian convoy and died from hunger and diseases," the source told TASS.

The Rukban refugee camp is located in al-Tanf security area, where a US military base is located. Militants from opposition groups are blocking the perimeter in the security zone and do not let the UN and the Syrian government’s humanitarian convoys enter the camp. There are about 50,000 refugees in the camp now, according to the global organization.

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