TURKEY/SYRIA: Wounded among those fleeing the violence in Syria cross the Orontes River to escape into Turkey

Record ID: 281497

  • Title: TURKEY/SYRIA: Wounded among those fleeing the violence in Syria cross the Orontes River to escape into Turkey
  • Date: 11th October 2012
  • Summary: ORONTES RIVER (OCTOBER 10, 2012) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) SYRIAN REFUGEES CROSSING RIVER ON WOODEN RAFT. SYRIAN BANK OF ORONTES RIVER (AS SEEN FROM TURKEY) (OCTOBER 10, 2012) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS). MEN ATTENDING WOUNDED SYRIAN RESTING ON THE GROUND UNDER A TREE. VARIOUS OF MEN CARRYING WOUNDED ON MAKESHIFT STRETCHERS DOWN TO RIVER VARIOUS OF WOUNDED BEING MOVED
  • Embargoed: 26th October 2012 13:00
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  • Location: Turkey, Syrian Arab Republic
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  • Country: Turkey Syrian Arab Republic
  • Topics: Conflict
  • Reuters ID: LVA8K5O1ASZ7TVEP2U684V1YSPUQ
  • Story Text: Scores of Syrian civilians, many of them women with children, used ropes and boats to cross the narrow Orontes river marking the border with Turkey on Wednesday (October 10) as they fled the fighting in Azmarin and surrounding villages.
    Residents of the Turkish village of Hacipasa helped pull the Syrians across the river in small metal boats.
    "They are killing people in Syria. They are shelling and destroying houses as well as other buildings with tanks and war planes. Rebels battle Syrian forces to protect us," said a Syrian man who had fled the village of Darkush.
    Doctors and volunteers set up makeshift first aid points on both sides of the frontier. A Turkish ambulance and several minibuses and cars waited to take the more seriously wounded to the main city of Antakya or district hospitals.
    Clashes continued between troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters in Azmarin village and the constant sound of gunfire could be heard from the Turkish side of the border.
    More than 18 months into the battle for Syria, an estimated 30,000 people are dead and the country is disintegrating. Turkey has nearly 100,000 Syrian refugees in camps on its territory.
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