The UN’s humanitarian chief, Baroness Amos said on Sunday the real number of Syrian refugees in Turkey is far higher than estimated.<br /><br />She was visiting a refugee camp set up in a school in the Turkish border town of Suruc.<br /><br />“In the nearly four years of this crisis, 900,000 people have been registered as refugees here in Turkey. The reality is that numbers nearer to 1.6 million,” Amos said.<br /><br />The Syrian border town of Kobani has been described as a ghost town. The UN says only around 700 people are left with most residents living in refugee camps in Turkey as ISIL battle to seize control of the town.<br /><br />US-led airstrikes have had some effect in halting ISIL’s advance.<br /><br />On Saturday mortar shells from the fighting also landed in Turkey in the Suruc district – according to the Anadolu Agency. <br /><br />The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday that US-led forces bombing ISIL in Syria had killed 10 civilians.
