TURKEY: Wounded Syrian refugees arrive at a Turkish hospital for medical treatment as fighting continues across the border

Record ID: 281068

  • Title: TURKEY: Wounded Syrian refugees arrive at a Turkish hospital for medical treatment as fighting continues across the border
  • Date: 21st July 2012
  • Summary: REYHANLI, TURKEY (JULY 21, 2012) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF REYHANLI STATE HOSPITAL SIGN INDICATING EMERGENCY WARD VARIOUS OF WOUNDED SYRIANS AND RELATIVES BEING SEATED OUTSIDE HOSPITAL (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) WOUNDED SYRIAN, ABU MUSTAFA SAYING: "They attack with missiles. We came from Aleppo. Many wounded, many dead. We brought six wounded people to Turkey yesterday." HOSPITAL
  • Embargoed: 5th August 2012 13:00
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  • Location: Turkey
  • Country: Turkey
  • Topics: Conflict,International Relations,Health,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVAZZOYPZXN2L94XWGEPL4QKHTJ
  • Story Text: Six wounded refugees were receiving medical treatment at Reyhanli state hospital in Turkey on Saturday (July 21) after fleeing from Syria.
    "They attack with missiles. We came from Aleppo. Many wounded, many dead. We brought six wounded people to Turkey yesterday," refugee Abu Mustafa said.
    Syrian soldiers and armoured troops pushed into a rebel-held district of Aleppo on Saturday after striking back in Damascus against fighters emboldened by a bomb attack against President Bashar al-Assad's inner circle.
    Activists in Aleppo, Syria's biggest city and a northern commercial hub, said hundreds of families were fleeing residential districts after the military swept into the Saladin district, The president has not spoken in public since the killings, and failed to attend funeral ceremonies for his brother-in-law and two other slain officials on Friday.
    The clashes in Aleppo came as U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he was sending his peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous and top military adviser Gen. Babacar Gaye to Syria to assess the situation.
    In Damascus, Assad's forces hit back overnight. Helicopters and tanks aimed rockets, machine guns and mortars at pockets of lightly armed rebel fighters who moved through the streets on foot, attacking security installations and roadblocks.
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