TURKEY: Wounded Syrians are taken to Turkey for treatment as mortar bombs and gunfire are heard along the Turkey-Syria border.

Record ID: 276472

  • Title: TURKEY: Wounded Syrians are taken to Turkey for treatment as mortar bombs and gunfire are heard along the Turkey-Syria border.
  • Date: 26th October 2012
  • Summary: HARAM, SYRIA (AS SEEN FROM TURKEY) (OCTOBER 26, 2012) (REUTERS) SMOKE RISING FROM MOUNTAINOUS AREA, AUDIO OF GUNFIRE VARIOUS OF THE TOWN, AUDIO OF EXPLOSIONS REYHANLI, TURKEY (OCTOBER 26, 2012) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF AMBULANCES PARKED OUTSIDE HOSPITAL MEDICS WHEELING BODY TO MORGUE PEOPLE WAITING OUTSIDE HOSPITAL VARIOUS OF DISTRESSED SYRIAN MAN SITTING ON THE GROUND AMB
  • Embargoed: 10th November 2012 12:00
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  • Location: Turkey
  • Country: Turkey
  • Topics: Conflict
  • Reuters ID: LVA65GXXYJIKR9Y5DN4TV3294CCK
  • Story Text: Wounded Syrians were taken across the border to Turkey on Friday (October 26) as fierce fighting broke out in the town of Haram.
    Heavy machine-gun fire and the sound of mortar bombs could be heard along the Turkey-Syrian border, a Reuters witness said, in another violation of a ceasefire intended to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.
    It was not clear whether the firing was from the Syrian army or from rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad.
    The firing in Haram could be heard from the Turkish border village of Besaslan in the southern Hatay province.
    Syria's warring parties largely held their fire on Friday at the start of a four-day truce, a short pause in hostilities which have killed 32,000 people and threaten to draw regional powers into a wider conflict.
    President Bashar al-Assad's armed forces announced a conditional ceasefire on Thursday evening, responding to an appeal by international mediator Lakhdar Brahimi.
    But they warned they would respond to any rebel attacks, or moves to exploit the truce to reinforce or resupply insurgents who are battling Assad's forces, including in Syria's biggest city Aleppo, and have seized swathes of territory from his grip.
    A commander from the rebel Free Syrian Army said his fighters would also honour the ceasefire but demanded Assad meet rebel demands for the release of thousands of detainees.
    Some Islamist fighters, including the Nusra Front, dismissed the truce before it even came into effect, but after a night of clashes in Aleppo, Damascus and the west of the country, activists said the country was largely calm on Friday.
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