Malala sees Syrian refugees crossing border into Jordan

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Malala with refugee child at Jordanian border Picture: Malala Fund

Education campaigner Malala Yousafzai has visited the Syrian-Jordan barrier to meet refugees and their children.

The teenage activist went to the border crossing at Hadalat, where hundreds pour into the country every day.

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UNHRC, the UN refugee agency, says it now has 600,000 Syrian refugees registered in Jordan.

In 2013 Malala challenged world leaders to back plans to educate Syrian children who had fled to Lebanon to escape the civil war.

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Marwan is helped by UNHRC staff at the Jordanian border Picture: Andrew Harper/UNHRC

The agency also tweeted a picture on the same day showing a four-year-old boy crossing the desert to get to the Syria-Jordan border.

The boy, called Marwan, had become temporarily separated from his family.听

UNHRC chief in Jordan Andrew Harper said this was not unusual as groups surged towards the gate at the border.

Marwan was reunited with his mother only a few minutes later after falling a few hundred yards behind the main group of refugees.