Agencies | Jeddah The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com A total of 306,887 civilians have been killed in the war in Syria since March 2011, about 1.5 percent of its pre-war population, the UN human rights office said yesterday. The latest death toll, based on eight info
Agencies | Jeddah
The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com
A total of 306,887 civilians have been killed in the war in Syria since March 2011, about 1.5 percent of its pre-war population, the UN human rights office said yesterday. The latest death toll, based on eight information sources and covering the first 10 years of the conflict through to March 2021, amounts to an average of 83 deaths every day, of whom 18 were children.
The estimate is still thought to represent “only a portion of all deaths,” the report said, because it included only those who died as a direct result of the war and not indirect deaths from lack of healthcare or access to food or water. It also did not include non-civilian deaths.
In a separate report, the UN said more than 100 people, including many women, had been murdered in the Al Hol camp in northeast Syria in the past 18 months. The camp was increasingly unsafe and children there werebeing condemned to a life with no future, said Imran Riza, the UN resident coordinator in Syria.
