Wounded due to a fire in the Roj camp south of Derik

North-Press Agency

Yesterday, Thursday, a fire broke out after a gas stove exploded inside the Roj camp for IDPs in the Derik region, in the far northeast of Syria, wounding two women and two children at varying levels of severity.

Kurdish Red Crescent official Ahmad Sheikhmous told North-Press that the fire wounded two women and two children, the condition of one of the women and one of the children is stable, while the other wounded are still in critical condition.

Sheikhmous noted that the medical teams working in the Derik region have transferred the two critical cases to Hasakah National Hospital, which is run by the Autonomous Administration, for the treatment of burns.

Roj camp, south of Hasakah, houses 521 families, including 429 foreign families and 78 Iraqi families, in addition to 14 Syrian families, most of whom are related to ISIS members.