Red Cross Finds 5,000 Syrian Refugees Near Massacre Site

More than 5,000 displaced Syrians, mostly women and children without food or water, have been found by a joint Red Cross-Red Crescent team close to the site of the weekend massacre in Houla.

“Being freshly displaced from their homes, the people had almost nothing to sustain themselves” when found in the village of Burj al-Qa’i, Sean Maguire, spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross, said in an e-mailed statement today. “People were worried, uncertain of their future and felt unsafe.”