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Syrian citizens carry their belongings, as they cross the border illegally, fleeing from violence in the western Syrian village of Talkalakh, in the Wadi Khaled area, about 0.6 miles from the Lebanon-Syria border, north Lebanon, on Monday, May 16. Carrying mattresses and bags of clothing, Syrians fleeing their homeland described a "catastrophic" scene Monday in a besieged border town that has been largely sealed off as the army tries to crush a two-month uprising.

Syrians fleeing besieged town cross border into Lebanon

The AP reports:

WADI KHALED, Lebanon — Using horses and mules to carry their possessions, Syrians crossed a shallow river Monday to reach safety in Lebanon with tales of a "catastrophic" scene back home: sectarian killings, gunmen carrying out execution-style slayings and the stench of decomposing bodies in the streets.

The accounts are bound together by a sense of growing desperation as President Bashar Assad's regime expands its crackdown on an uprising that has entered a third month with no sign of letting up.

At least 16 people — eight of them members of the same family — have been killed in recent days in Talkalakh, a town of about 70,000 residents that has been under siege since Thursday, witnesses and activists say. Continue reading.

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