Almost 30,000 Syrian Refugees Enter Iraq Since Thursday: U.N. -- Reuters
(Reuters) - An estimated 29,000 Syrian refugees have entered northern Iraq since Thursday in one of the largest crossings in Syria's two-year-old conflict and the influx is continuing, the United Nations said on Monday.
Syrians fleeing fighting in Aleppo and other embattled parts of northern Syria began pouring into the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq last Thursday, taking advantage of a new pontoon bridge along the largely closed border, it said.
"It is a massive movement of people," said Dan McNorton, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
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