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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
World
Rachel Hagan

'Garbage people' forced to eat rubbish from military dump due to devastating war

Syrians living in the worst imaginable conditions have been forced to eat rubbish from a US military dump as they can longer afford food.

Alia has set off at 7am every day for the past three years to make a two-hour journey to the dump in Tell Beydar, north-east Syria, in a hunt for food to eat and plastic to sell for recycling.

The 25-year-old said: "People shame us; they call us garbage people."

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