Activists: 63 people die in Palestinian refugee camp near Damascus

More than 60 people have died over the past few months in a besieged Palestinian refugee camp in Syria's capital from a lack of food and medicine, an activist group said Friday.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the first person died in the Yarmouk camp in June. It said a total of 63 people have died there since the siege began – 61 of which died in the past three months.

Yarmouk, on the southern fringe of Damascus, is one of the worst-hit besieged areas in Syria. Activists and residents previously said that some 50 people died of starvation and hunger-related illnesses since the government imposed a blockade on the sprawling district a year ago.

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