In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian citizens carry a dead body, at the scene where two mortar rounds exploded near an orphanage, at al-Boukhtyar area, in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday March 13, 2013. The state-run SANA news agency said two mortar rounds exploded near an orphanage in al-Boukhtyar area, killing and wounding an unknown number of people. Syrian government troops fought fierce battles with rebels on Wednesday for control of key neighborhoods in the north of Damascus, residents and activists said. (AP Photo/SANA)
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian citizens carry a dead body, at the scene where two mortar rounds exploded near an orphanage, at al-Boukhtyar area, in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday March 13, 2013. The state-run SANA news agency said two mortar rounds exploded near an orphanage in al-Boukhtyar area, killing and wounding an unknown number of people. Syrian government troops fought fierce battles with rebels on Wednesday for control of key neighborhoods in the north of Damascus, residents and activists said. (AP Photo/SANA)
BEIRUT (AP) ? A U.N. official says the number of registered Syrian refugees has jumped by more than 10 percent in just one week as part of an escalating exodus.
Last week, the U.N. refugee agency said the number of Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey, Egypt and North Africa had reached 1 million.
Agency spokeswoman Reem Alsalem said on Thursday that 121,000 have registered since then.
She says Syrians are fleeing their country "at a rate faster than anyone anticipated." She says about 2,000 people fled each day in December, compared to 8,000 a day now.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says clashes erupted Thursday in the central city of Homs. Rebels last weekend retook parts of the city's Baba Amr neighborhood, an early battleground in the 2-year-old conflict.
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