His kidnappers may be far away, but inside the muddy camp of ramshackle tents, youths his age prowl, attacking others.

In one of the tented settlements in Bar Elias, people are salvaging anything they can to insulate their ramshackle tents.

In our neighborhood are a dozen ramshackle tents where these poor devils keep 'bachelors' hall' with little more than a skillet and a coffee pot.

Many lived in hangars, others in ramshackle tents just meters (yards) from the runway as planes rumbled past, and some slept inside disused aircraft.