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A wounded Syrian man is carried to an ambulance after crossing to Turkey over the Orontes river on the Turkish-Syrian border near the village of Hacipasa, in Hatay province on October 10, 2012.
Osman Orsal / Reuters
A Syrian family cross to Turkey by boat over the Orontes river on October 10, 2012.
Reuters reports — Scores of Syrian civilians, many of them women with screaming children clinging to their necks, crossed a narrow river marking the border with Turkey as they fled the fighting in Azmarin and surrounding villages. Residents from the Turkish village of Hacipasa, nestled among olive groves, helped pull them across in small metal boats.
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"The firing started getting intense last night. Some people have been killed, some are lying wounded on the road," said a 55-year old woman, Mune, who fled Azmarin and sat with several adults and about 20 children outside a house in Hacipasa. Read the full story.
Osman Orsal / Reuters
A wounded Syrian man is carried to a boat to cross to Turkey on October 10, 2012.
Osman Orsal / Reuters
Syrians cross to Turkey by boat over the Orontes river on October 10, 2012. .
Osman Orsal / Reuters
A wounded Syrian man is helped after crossing to Turkey on October 10, 2012.
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Pictures can only give you a very vague idea of the kind of destruction and suffering that is going on in Syria. I'm sure the reality of what those people are going through is much worse than any picture could convey.
Over the river and through the woods to grandmothers house we go....
ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY AND WITHOUT A DOUBT none of our business. I can only hope we stay out of it. I hope people notice the rich saudis aren't lifting a finger as are the emirates. Their sunni. why should we carry their water
You could have not said it better. Thats how Detroit is going to look if they get no help..
Does this really help them? Muslims are murdering innocent families in every nation on earth. Including each other. Staying to fight is at least doing something. Fording the river is just choosing a new place to die.