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Syrians flee through snow and gunfire to Lebanon

By Oliver Holmes 05/03/12
Braving Syrian army patrols and treacherous winter weather, hundreds of people fled into Lebanon in the last 24 hours to escape the heaviest shelling of their border towns in a year-long crackdown on protests against President Bashar al-Assad.In the hillside town of Arsal in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, residents say between 100 and 150 families arrived from Syria on Sunday - one of the biggest refugee influxes so far.A dozen families spent Sunday night in a three-storey apartment block in Arsal after fleeing what they said was a sustained army attack on the Syrian town of Qusair with tanks, rocket-propelled grenades and helicopters... Read on
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