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Daily Mirror
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Rachel Hagan

UNCOVERED: Garbage people forced to eat rubbish from military dump due to devastating war | History Defined

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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