A civilian was shot dead Tuesday by Turkish border guards while trying to cross the Syrian-Turkish border from the Selqeen area (43 km north of Idlib) in northern Syria.
Raghad Sobhi al-Khalaf from Deir al-Zour was shot dead by Turkish gendarmes while crossing the border as a refugee fleeing the eight-year-old “war” in Syria.
The number of refugees killed by the Turkish border guards rose to 420, according to statistics from the Vdc-Nsy (78 children under the age of 18 and 46 women). The number of casualties rose to 317.
The cases of “gendarme” targeting Syrian refugees trying to cross the border from Syria to escape the war in their country are repeated and it has built a wall along her 911-kilometer border to prevent refugees from entering, killing and injuring civilians on an ongoing basis.
