Palestinian refugees flee Syria camp, says United Nations

16 August 2011 Last updated at 01:31 ET Help

Thousands of Palestinian refugees have been forced to escape a camp in the Syrian port of Latakia amid shelling by government troops, the UN has said.

A spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works agency told the BBC that more than 5,000 of the 10,000 people have had to flee.

The BBC's Humphrey Hawksley reports.

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