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Three Canadian medical students have volunteered to help refugees in war-torn Lebanon.
Marrie Claude Harresson, Andrea Lessard and Genevieve Lalande, all 21, from Quebec, approached social service and humanitarian aid foundations in Beirut to offer their services, Gulf News reported.
The students arrived in Beirut on May 1 to undergo internship in hospitals here and were set to go back to their university on August 10.
"We got caught here and we are more than glad to offer our assistance in this horrendous and inhuman situation," Harresson told Gulf News.
This developed as hundreds of Canadians started arriving in Canada after fleeing strife-torn Lebanon.
One batch of nearly 100 Canadians arrived in Ottawa early Friday from Cyprus aboard Prime Minister Stephen Harper's airplane.
Another planeload of about 250 Canadians fleeing Lebanon arrived in Montreal from Turkey on Friday morning. Two more flights are expected to land in Toronto on Friday afternoon.
Two ships carrying Canadians arrived in Mersin, Turkey late Thursday. They boarded planes from the nearby Turkish city of Adana. Two more ships carrying Canadians left the port of Beirut on Friday.
More than 700 Canadians have landed in Turkey after fleeing Lebanon. About 4,000 Canadians are expected to go through Turkey as Canada tries to get thousands of Canadians out of Lebanon.
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