UN: 130,000 people fled from Ghouta

geneva - The United Nations issued an alarm on Tuesday about 'a wave of displaced persons' from the Syrian enclave in East Ghouta. It is estimated that more than 133,000 people have fled the area within four weeks, where UN aid organizations still do not have access.

Approximately 45,000 of the displaced persons reside in eight places in the countryside around Damascus. Approximately the same number of women, children and older men have left the overcrowded shelters after a screening by the government.

Since last week, the last enclave enclave, the suburb of Douma in the East-Ghouta region, has been the scene of heavy attacks. By a recent attack with possible poison gas at least seventy people would have died.