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Floods hit 40,000 displaced in north-west Syria: UN

More than 40,000 displaced people in north-western Syria have seen their camps flooded by heavy rains that began on Saturday (March 30th), a UN spokesman said Tuesday.

Around 14 camps were affected in Idlib province, David Swanson of the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) told AFP.

The Idlib region, controlled by extremist alliance Tahrir al-Sham, is home to more than three million people, more than half of whom have been displaced by the war.

Civil defence workers known as the White Helmets have been working to save people and their scant belongings from the rising muddy waters.

The White Helmets "continue to respond to the catastrophic situation in the northern Syria camps", the group said in a late Monday social media post.

The latest downpour has affected tens of thousands of civilians, displaced persons, crops and livestock in Idlib, Aleppo and al-Hasakeh, Swanson said.

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