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On 3 April, a pressure cooker exploded inside a tent at Newroz, a camp currently hosting nearly 500 internally displaced persons (IDPs). Wounded family members affected by the accident were immediately transported to hospitals, however some died later due to their injuries.

In the past month, Alouk water station, a critically important source of clean water for nearly half a million people in northeast Syria, has been disrupted multiple times. We are in the midst of a global public health crisis that has the potential to inflict a devastating impact on vulnerable communities across Syria. Families must have uninterrupted and sufficient access to water to protect themselves against the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

• On Tuesday, 28 March, a bomb blast from a fuel tanker exploded in a crowded street in Afrin city. Early reports indicate that several children were among as many as 40 killed in the indiscriminate attack, and at least as many civilians were injured.