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7,000+ Syrians Leave Rukban Camp - UN

7,000+ Syrians Leave Rukban Camp - UN
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By Staff, Agencies

More than 7,000 people have left the desperate desert Rukban Camp for displaced Syrians near the Jordanian border since March, a United Nations spokesperson said Friday.

According to the UN humanitarian coordination office OCHA, around 36,000 people remained in the camp near al-Tanf base used by the US-led coalition based in Syria, after over 4,000 left between March and April 21.

The Syrian government and key backer Russia said in February they had opened corridors out of the camp, calling on residents to leave.

"Since March, over 7,300 people have left Rukban," OCHA spokesperson David Swanson told AFP, including some 3,000 who left after April 21.

Those who have quit the camp have moved to collective shelters in the central city of Homs or resettled in their areas of origin in the province of the same name, OCHA said Thursday.

It said Rukban residents were organizing their own transportation to the edge of a de-escalation zone established around al-Tanf, from where they either continued in their vehicles or were transferred by private or government-provided vehicles to four collective shelters in Homs city.

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