Five-year-old Intissar and her younger sister Lin were sheltering from northern Syria's bitter winter cold when fuel from a heater ignited their tent, killing them and seriously injuring their mother.
The young family and other displaced Syrians were living near the Turkish border in a camp of more than 400 tents, which offer little protection from snow storms and plunging temperatures which struck in recent days.has brought chaos to traffic and flights in neighbouring countries but its effects are most severe in northwest Syria, where 3 million people have been left homeless in a long-running humanitarian crisis.Many have been displaced several times by the 11-year war.
He said the latest snowfall was the heaviest he had seen. The weight of the snow has collapsed many tents, while water seeped underneath them. "The numbers are just staggering, and it is very difficult to provide people with all the support they need," he said. Desperate to stay warm, people were burning cardboard and plastic bottles, and then inhaling toxic fumes.
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