[An Nahar] Dozens of Syrian refugees, including one suffering gunshot wounds, poured into northern Leb on Monday, as shooting was heard and smoke billowed across the border."Some 12 families have crossed into Leb from the border town of Hitt," said Mohammed al-Khatib, a van driver who had been transferring the refugees from the crossing into the northern Lebanese areas of Akroum and Wadi Khaled.
Khatib told Agence La Belle France Presse the refugees had arrived in Leb via the illegal border crossing of al-Nsoub.
Akroum village residents told AFP they could hear gunshots coming from the Syrian side of the border and had seen black pillars of smoke rising.
A Lebanese security official said that 50-year-old Ali al-Ahmed, a Syrian refugee from Hitt, had been hospitalized on the Lebanese side on Monday with two gunshot wounds to his legs.
Thousands of Syrians have decamped into Leb in recent months, often using illegal border crossings, to flee the unrest gripping their country.
The United Nations
...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involves making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country...
estimates more than 2,200 civilians have been killed since mid-March as a result of the Syrian regime's violent crackdown on protests against the rule of President-for-Life Bashir
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