About 6400 has arrive at Jordan camp in 24 hours
MORE than 6,400 Syrian refugees have arrived at Jordan's Zaatari camp in the past 24 hours, the UN refugee agency says.
"Jordan has experienced a record number of refugees crossing," UNHCR spokeswoman Melissa Fleming told reporters in Geneva on Friday, noting that 30,000 had arrived so far in January and December's influx totalled 16,413.
The new arrivals bring the total population of the spreading camp that open at the middle of last year is about 65,100.
"At yesterday Thursday, about 4,400 Syrian refugees arrived in Zaatari camp, and a later about 2,000 arrived at night," The Fleming has said.
"The worker in Zaatari has been working day and night shifts to b assure that the attend to the new arrivals and the growing needs of the refugees in the camp," she assumed.
Fleming said that most new arrivals are women, children and elderly and the conditions in the camp were complicated.
"It sound so painful that we report the death of three refugee children this today" in the camp, she said, At the camp a two-year-old and a two-month-old child had died shortly after arriving at the camp, while a two-day-old baby died following an emergency delivery.
She also said that the UNHCR has been working hard with the Jordanian government to prepare a second major camp named the Halabat camp near Zaatari to take out some of the stress from them.
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