5,000 Refugees Flee Syria Everyday

U.N. Says 5,000 Syrians a Day Are Now Fleeing War -- New York Times

GENEVA — Syria’s conflict is now driving 5,000 people out of the country each day in an increasingly desperate scramble for safety, the United Nations refugee agency said Friday as it reported a surge in their numbers to nearly 800,000.

“This is a full-on crisis,” Adrian Edwards, a spokesman for the agency, told journalists in Geneva. He said the number of registered Syrian refugees in neighboring countries had risen about 25 percent last month alone.

Another United Nations agency, Unicef, said in a new assessment that Syrian civilians in conflict zones had only one-third the water supplies of pre-crisis levels, with Aleppo, rural Damascus, Deir al-Zour, Homs, Idlib and Raqqa the most severely afflicted.

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More News On Syria's Refugee Crisis

UN refugee agency says 5,000 fleeing Syria daily in ‘full-on crisis’ -- Washington Post/AP
'Full-on crisis': 5,000 refugees flee Syria daily, UN says -- NBC
5,000 Syria refugees flee every day -- Euronews
Some 5,000 fleeing Syria every day: UN -- AFP
Number of Syrian refugees aided by U.N. exceeds 265,000 -- Daily Star
UN eyes 1.1 million Syria refugees amid 'crisis fatigue' -- Global Post/AFP

My Comment: I expected higher numbers. It is winter in Syria right now, and with much of the country now devastated from war the only salvation for millions of Syrians is to flee the country. I expect this flow of refugees out of the country to continue until spring-summer.