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Refugees flee fighting in Syria
The number of Syrian refugees rose sharply last month, with more than 100,000 fleeing the war-torn country to seek refuge in neighbouring countries
A Syrian woman covers her face as she peers from a classroom where she has been living with her family since fleeing the violence in Syria in the Sunni Muslim Lebanese village of Majdal Anjar in the eastern Bekaa Valley near the Syrian border on September 4, 2012. The number of Syrian refugees rose sharply last month, with more than 100,000 fleeing the war-torn country to seek refuge in neighbouring countries, according to the UN refugee agency. (AFP/Getty Images)
A Syrian refugee girl sits in a classroom of a school where families fleeing the ongoing violence in Syria are staying in the Sunni Muslim Lebanese village of Majdal Anjar in the eastern Bekaa Valley near the border with Syria on September 4, 2012. The number of Syrian refugees rose sharply last month, with more than 100,000 fleeing the war-torn country to seek refuge in neighbouring countries, according to the UN refugee agency. (AFP/Getty Images)
A Syrian woman walks in the corridor of a school where refugee families are staying in the Sunni Muslim Lebanese village of Majdal Anjar in the eastern Bekaa Valley near the border with Syria on September 4, 2012. The number of Syrian refugees rose sharply last month, with more than 100,000 fleeing the war-torn country to seek refuge in neighbouring countries, according to the UN refugee agency. (AFP/Getty Images)
A Syrian girl writes on a blackboard in Arabic ‘Free Syria’ at a school where refugee families are staying in the Sunni Muslim Lebanese village of Majdal Anjar in the eastern Bekaa Valley near the border with Syria on September 4, 2012. The number of Syrian refugees rose sharply last month, with more than 100,000 fleeing the war-torn country to seek refuge in neighbouring countries, according to the UN refugee agency. (AFP/Getty Images)
A Syrian girl stands in a playground at a school where refugee families are staying in the Sunni Muslim Lebanese village of Majdal Anjar in the eastern Bekaa Valley near the border with Syria on September 4, 2012. The number of Syrian refugees rose sharply last month, with more than 100,000 fleeing the war-torn country to seek refuge in neighbouring countries, according to the UN refugee agency. (AFP/Getty Images)
