Five children died due to large fire in Syria’s Hawl
HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – On Sunday, another child died due to the fire broke out in Hawl camp, east of Hasakah, yesterday, raising the number of the dead to five children.
“The injured are still under medical supervision in the hospitals because their burns are severe,” Dr. Diy’a al-Ahmad, head of the surgeries in the camp, told North Press.
“The degrees of burns of the injured ranged between the second and third, as two children lost their lives immediately, while two others died in Hasakah hospitals after being admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU),” al-Ahmad added.
“We received a report of a fire around 18:30 yesterday, where our emergency teams immediately intervened and provided first aid and then, hospitalized the injured to Hasakah hospitals due to the severity of the cases, as most of them were children,” he noted.
Wedding turned into condolence
According to eyewitnesses, the big number of the injuries is as a result of a large crowd gathered in the room in which the fire broke out, to celebrate a wedding party for one of the Syrian IDPs.
“The cause of the fire was due to the fall of the fireplace after one of the children bumped into it,” Jassem al-Muhammad, a Syrian IDP who lives in the camp, said.
“The number of the children was large and we could not save all of them, so the neighbors and emergency teams rushed,” he added.
Al-Muhammad pointed out that the flames led us to demolish the wall, but that did not help in reducing the number of the injuries.
“There were more than 40 people. We watched children and women rushing out of the room while they burned,” a Syrian IDP woman in the camp, who did not want to be named, said.
In turn, Muhammad al-Musleh, a relative of the injured, said, “those gathered were just women and children. When the fire raged, we could not see anything in the room because of the smoke.”
“As fire intensified, the ceiling of the room collapsed, so we faced difficulty in extinguishing the flames, so that the wedding turned into a condolence”, he added.
Yesterday, a fire broke out in the fourth section of Hawl camp and reached the adjacent tent, which resulted in the burning of 36 residents of the camp, 33 of which were transferred to the nearby hospitals in the area.