Turkey shoots dead Syrian refugees crossing the border as they flee civil war - Mirror Online
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Border forces in Turkey are shooting refugees dead as they cross over into the country fleeing civil war in Syria, it has been reported.
Guards have killed sixteen refugees including three children as they crossed into Turkey, the Times reports.
Monitoring organisation the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claims border forces have shot dead the sixteen refugees over the past four months.
An officer in the British-backed Free Syrian Police and a Syrian smuggler, living in Turkey, claimed that the true number was higher.
The newspaper reports on February 6 a man and his child were killed in Ras alAin on the eastern stretch of the Syrian-Turkish border.