Child died of burns in Syria’s Hawl Camp
HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – An Iraqi child girl lost her life on Sunday due to burns all over her body in Hawl Camp, east of Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria.
On Saturday, a fire broke out in four tents within the camp’s first sector, allocated for Iraqis.
As a result, the child girl Zainab Khalloof, 8, was injured and hospitalized to al-Hikma Hospital in Hasakah, but later she died of burns.
Khalloof hails from Nineveh Governorate in northwest Iraq.
A security source said, “Initial investigations indicate to an arson.”
The fire coincided with “Humanity and Security” operation launched by the Internal Security Forces of North and East Syria (Asayish) in the amp to pursue sleeper cells of Islamic State Organization (ISIS).
On Sunday, Asayish said that they arrested 48 members of sleeper cells of ISIS and removed 54 tents in Hawl Camp.
Hawl Camp, 45 km east of the city of Hasakah, is a house for 55.829 individuals, including 28.725 Iraqis, 18.850 Syrians and 8.254 of foreign nationalities, according to the latest statistics obtained by North Press.
The camp witnesses murders with different methods, most notably firearms. The management of the camp fears that the latest Turkish threats of invading areas in northern Syria would pave the way for ISIS to reorganize its ranks; North Press cited a statement by the management as saying.