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Jordan Opens Camp for Syrian Refugees

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The camp, about six miles from the Syrian border, has 2000 tents to accommodate the growing number of refugees from the fighting in Syria. Jordanian officials say around 130,000 Syrians have come to Jordan since the fighting began, and numbers have spiked in recent days. “We can only expect that more people will be coming across, more people who will be in need of assistance,” Andrew Harper, the representative of the United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees (UNHCR) said at the camp’s opening. ”We are seeing women and children without their husbands, without their fathers, coming across the border.” Syrian troops have tried to prevent refugees from fleeing by mining parts of the border.