Palestinian refugees flee Syria camp, says United Nations
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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