SYRIA: Syrians from the town of Tel Abyad, the target of recent Turkish retaliatory artillery strikes, show the aftermath in their town as smoke continues to rise on the border

Record ID: 281419

  • Title: SYRIA: Syrians from the town of Tel Abyad, the target of recent Turkish retaliatory artillery strikes, show the aftermath in their town as smoke continues to rise on the border
  • Date: 6th October 2012
  • Summary: TEL ABYAD, SYRIA (AS SEEN FROM TURKEY) (OCTOBER 5, 2012) (REUTERS) VIEW OF TEL ABYAD VARIOUS OF BUILDINGS IN THE DISTANCE VIEW OF A MOSQUE VARIOUS OF PEOPLE WALKING VARIOUS OF WHITE SMOKE SEEN RISING IN DISTANCE MAN ON MOTORBIKE WHITE SMOKE RISING BLACK SMOKE RISING OVER HILL TEL ABYAD, SYRIA (OCTOBER 5, 2012) (REUTERS) VIEW OF EMPTY STREET ANOTHER STREET / PEOPL
  • Embargoed: 21st October 2012 13:00
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  • Location: Syrian Arab Republic
  • Country: Syria
  • Topics: Conflict
  • Reuters ID: LVAB0SSLKDSPDPZMW717JIW6JGO2
  • Story Text: From afar, Syria's border town of Tel Abyad looks calm, but smoke was still rising over the hills near Turkey on Friday (October 5).
    Turkey attacked the town for two days in response to a mortar fired from Syria that killed five people on Wednesday (October 3).
    Inside the town, where Free Syrian Army soldiers control the streets and are checking identity cards, the aftermath of Turkish artillery attack is self evident.
    Some homes have been heavily damaged.
    People at the town said the Turkish attack started suddenly, without warning.
    "So they started to fire in all directions, we couldn't tell where they were shooting from," a man who identified himself as a member of the Free Syrian Army, said.
    On the southern edge of Akcakale, Tel Abyad is just a few miles (kilometres) across the frontier.
    The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said three Syrian soldiers were killed by Turkish shelling of a military post nearby.
    The United Nations Security Council condemned the Syrian mortar attack on Thursday (October 4) and demanded that "such violations of international law stop immediately and are not repeated."
    Consensus within the council on anything related to Syria is unusual and it has been deadlocked on the issue of the country's 19-moth-long conflict for more than a year, with Russia and China rejecting calls to sanction the Damascus government.
    Syria wrote to the council offering condolences for the deaths of the Turkish civilians and calling for restraint and rationality.
    showed the situation inside Syria was only getting more serious.
    More than 30,000 people have been killed in the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, which began with peaceful street protests but is now a full-scale civil war.
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