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UNHCR: One Out of Every Eight Iraqis Displaced Because of Violence

The United Nations refugee agency says one out of every eight Iraqis is forced to flee home to escape violence.

The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees say up to 50-thousand Iraqis flee their homes every month. The agency says it is the largest population displacement in the Middle East in over half-a-century.

A U.N.H.C.R. spokesman, Ron Redmond tells VOA Iraq's neighbors do not have the resources to deal with the refugees. He says the agency is appealing for 60 million dollars to help address the situation.

Meanwhile, Iraqi officials say gunmen ambushed a bus carrying mostly Shi'ite workers through a Sunni neighborhood of Baghdad, killing four people.

Elsewhere in the capital, gunmen killed five members of a Shi'ite family, and a roadside bomb killed two people.

North of Baghdad, near Samarra, gunmen kidnapped a tribal council chief.


