Originally published on February 21, 2014<br /><br />------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />An explosion tore apart a refugee camp along the Syria-Turkey border on Thursday, killing at least five people, according to Reuters. <br /><br />The blast, believed to have been a car bomb, exploded near a Syrian refugee camp located near a border crossing with Turkey on February 20th.<br /><br />Turkish officials said the blast happened near Turkey's Oncupinar border post, a site that's home to a makeshift refugee camp sheltering thousands of Syrian refugees.<br /><br />The car bomb went off on the Syrian side of the main road leading to the border. Turkish rescue workers ferried at least 40 injured people to a hospital in the Turkish city of Kilis.<br /> <br />Turkey has kept its borders open during the nearly three-year-long Syrian civil war and is sheltering some 600,000 Syrian refugees in camps inside Turkish soil.<br /> <br />Dozens of other refugee camps have sprung up in Syria alongside the border with Turkey and other neighboring countries. <br /><br />Reports say Syrian government forces have stepped up the use of barrel bombs in the city of Aleppo in recent weeks.<br /><br />Abu Osama, a refugee camp administrator, said thousands of new refugees have massed at the camp to escape the violence in Aleppo, a city some 60 kilometers from the Turkish border.<br /><br />The death toll from the blast has yet to be confirmed. A group called "The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights" said five people were confirmed dead and that a fire broke out in the tent camp after the blast. <br /><br />But Turkish newspaper 'Today's Zaman' said 24 were killed and at least 40 injured.<br /> <br />No claims of responsibility have yet been made.<br /><br />------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Welcome to TomoNews, where we animate the most entertaining news on the internets. Come here for an animated look at viral headlines, US news, celebrity gossip, salacious scandals, dumb criminals a
