ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A young child died in a Duhok province refugee camp on Monday after his family’s tent caught fire, according to a local official who blamed an electrical short circuit for the incident. Dalal Mohammed, head of Bardarash refugee camp, told Rudaw’s Naif Ramadan that one of the tents of the camp caught fire late Monday, killing a five-year-old child. He added that the cause of the incident was an electrical short circuit. The camp is located in Bardarash town, housing thousands of refugees from northeast Syria (Rojava). A similar incident took place in the same camp, killing a young child earlier this month. In the last decade a large number of Rojava people have fled their country to the Kurdistan Region due to the civil war and Turkey’s invasion of their hometowns in the north of Syria. Fires are a common occurrence in the Kurdistan Region’s displacement camps.
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