Clashes between government troops and armed groups in Colombia have displaced some 4,400 people from the country's south toward the Ecuadoran border, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Colombia reported Monday.
Most of the displaced are women and children from the southwestern provinces of Narino and Cauca, an ICRC communique said.
These internal refugees are suffering precarious health conditions and shortage of food and housing, it added.
Serge Thierry, an ICRC assistant manager, said some of the displaced are in a "serious humanitarian situation."
"They do not have access to subsistence activities and are in complicated conditions."
"The situation of the armed conflict in those zones is worrying the residents and the displaced people. Many have no option but to leave their homes and lose their economic support," the ICRC said.
The ICRC is worried about the humanitarian situation in the region, as armed conflict continues between the paramilitary and ultra-leftist groups, as well as drug traffickers.
The conflicts have made Colombia home to the second largest number of displaced people in the world, after Sudan, which has 4 million.
Source:Xinhua
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