According to preliminary data, there are victims.
“The cause of the fire was arson following a quarrel between a group of Syrian refugee workers and members of the local Al Mir clan”, – the source said.
According to him, the outrage of the Syrians was caused by the non-payment by employers of the money owed to them.
In response, clan members set fire to several tents and plywood dwellings. The flames erupted quickly engulfed most of the camp. Rescuers who arrived at the scene were able to put out the fire and evacuated the Syrians to neighboring camps in Tripoli, Akkara and Dynnia. Army patrols stopped the clashes and detained their instigators.
Khaled Kabbara, a spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Lebanon, noted that the camp was almost completely burned out.
“There were 75 Syrian families living in Minya, all of them sent to temporary reception centers for displaced persons in the north of the country”, – he said.