A Syrian mother has attempted to burn herself and her children to death at a refugee camp in eastern Syria after she failed to find food for her family for three straight days, a civil defence spokesman says.
Sundus Fathallah, 28, set herself and her three starving children on fire inside a tent at Rukban refugee camp on Saturday, spokesman Khaled al-Ali told dpa.
Other refugees at the camp put out the fire, which damaged the tent, and evacuated the woman and her children to hospital, the spokesman said on Sunday.
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