Ms Burnet then carried one daughter for a mile as they fled to safety.
The mothers were unpacking blankets from grain sacks they had used as suitcases when they fled.
Three Ministry of Finance employees told Iraqi police they fled the scene after they came under fire.
Fixed-income investors seemed most comfortable during uncertain markets as they fled equities in search of safer refuge.
There are also reports that many people may have drowned in a river as they fled the attacks.
So they are caught between the war they fled and the outside world that will not embrace them.
Some refugees said they saw villages on fire behind them as they fled.
With help from U.S. authorities, they fled the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq to escape the oppression of Saddam Hussein.
For four years after they fled to Sweden, it was too dangerous for the family to return to their homeland.
They fled their home on foot as the water levels reached their waists and have lost most of their belongings.
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He has turned his back on the Taliban government in Afghanistan, but arrested few of its members when they fled to Pakistan.
His grandparents had money but lost everything when they fled the Russian revolution in 1917 and moved to Harbin in northern China.
They fled after police arrived but it was discovered that a large quantity of lead flashing had been stolen resulting in "significant damage".
More than a week after they fled Cuba, four Cuban baseball players and a coach are still lost at sea in a flimsy boat.
They fled to the adjoining North Waziristan, Bajur and Swat regions.
They were driven from their homes because of violent threats and none believe it will ever be safe enough to go back to the land they fled.
That is why they fled east to Iran, particularly in the case of Sadr, and also south out of the Sadr City into the area in Basra.
"These groups escaped the Spanish rule for 200 years because they fled to the Sierra de San Carlos where they had water, plants and animals to feed themselves, " she said.
These patients tell the doctor about their plight in the U.S. and the dangers in the countries they fled, recounting horror stories of human trafficking, kidnapping, rape and murder.
She and her husband, Bernard, 67, who fled to Houston and then San Antonio, Texas, after Katrina, are packing twice the clothes they took with them when they fled in 2005.
They fled to North America in the 19th Century to avoid persecution, but many Hutterites still speak with a heavy German accent and they mostly talk and pray in a German dialect.
Mrs Cameron - who has three children - also heard from a mother whose three-year-old son was shot by a sniper next to his six siblings as they fled Syria in a car.
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Here, within earshot of Turkey's highways, you can also hear the distant but occasional thud of artillery -- a reminder that the war they fled remains the worse option over the squalor they now endure.
"The devastating conditions suffered by the Bangladeshi refugees as they fled the war with Pakistan offered ORT (oral rehydration therapy) its definitive test, " according to an August 2003 paper published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
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