A lucky few Syrian refugees have found asylum in Sweden or Germany, but many more have ended up in poor nations and overflowing shelters.
Desperate Syrians Find Little Comfort In New Homes
December 12, 2013

Via AFP:

They fled air strikes and shelling, but many of Syria's three million refugees have found little comfort elsewhere, suffering in squalid camps and risking death to reach Europe's shores.

In Lebanon, many crowd into makeshift shelters in agricultural fields that will soon be blanketed in thick snow, and in Egypt they have faced government crackdowns and deportation.

A lucky few have found asylum in Sweden or Germany, but many more have ended up in the EU's poorest nation Bulgaria, held in overflowing shelters.

Some of the estimated three million Syrian refugees are treading paths well...

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