Woman sets herself and her children on fire at Syrian refugee camp

[TomSea]

I am hearing they survived.

Woman sets herself and her children on fire at Syrian refugee camp
14 January 2019

Damascus: 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 the DPA news agency.

Other refugees at the camp put out the fire and took the woman and her children to hospital, the spokesman said on Sunday.

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