Syria Lays Mines as Thousands Flee Spreading Assad Attack
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Syrian forces are sowing minefields along the border with Turkey and Lebanon even as thousands of refugees flee a widening crackdown by President Bashar al-Assad’s military.
The landmines are already causing civilian casualties, Human Rights Watch said today in a statement on its website. The New York-based group showed pictures of anti-personnel mines with Cyrillic lettering which it said were PMN-2 devices of Russian or Soviet origin. They had been removed by volunteer deminers, it said.