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Syrian refugees could triple to 3m Syria could become world's worst refugee problem area, warns UN high commissioner Share 103 in Share 3 Email Staff and agencies guardian.co.uk , Sunday 10 March 2013 11.48 GMT A Syrian woman carries her child from a tent fire at Zattari refugee camp on the Syria-Jordan border. Photograph: Chen Chunxiang/Corbis The number of refugees from the Syrian conflict, which topped 1 million last week, could triple by the end of the year if it continues at the current rate, the UN's refugee chief said on Sunday. "If this escalation goes on, we will have – and nothing happens to solve the problem – we might have in the end of the year a much larger number of refugees, two or three times the present level," the UN high commissioner for refugees, António Guterres, told reporters in Ankara. If his worst forecast comes true, it would make Syria the world's biggest refugee problem area, ahead of Afg