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High rate of civilian deaths in Syria fuelling refugee crisis

A quarter of the more than 200,000 civilians killed in Syria's conflict since 2011 have been women and children, and the high rate of non-combatant deaths has likely fuelled the refugee crisis, a study released Wednesday said.

30.09.2015

(AFP) A quarter of the more than 200,000 civilians killed in Syria's conflict since 2011 have been women and children, and the high rate of non-combatant deaths has likely fuelled the refugee crisis, a study released Wednesday said.

The proportion and cause of these civilian deaths differed in government-held and rebel areas, said the study, published in the British Medical Journal.