DHAKA: Another 400 Syrian refugees have crossed into Turkey to escape escalating fighting in Syria, state-run Anatolia new agency said on Saturday, raising the total to more than 24,500.
Anatolia said 396 refugees from Syria`s Idlib province, one of the hotbeds of a 14-month-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, had entered Turkey’s Hatay province and registered in the villages of Kavalcik, Kusakli and Bukulmez.
Four of the new arrivals were hospitalised with injuries, according to Anatolia.
BDST: 1929 HRS, JUN 2, 2012
Edited by Robab Rosan, Cultural Affairs Editor
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