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SYRIA - 16 dead after clash at border

Published:Monday | May 16, 2011 | 12:00 AM
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Arab demonstrators use a makeshift stretcher to carry the lifeless body of an unidentified man yesterday, who was killed as protestors from Syria tried to approach the village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, between Syria and Israel during a rally marking the anniversary of the mass displacement of Palestinians surrounding Israel's establishment in 1948. The Israeli military said thousands of protesters approached Syria's border with the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. It said hundreds of people burst through the border, and soldiers opened fire to stop them. Dozens were wounded and some were reported killed. - AP photos
Pakistani Shiites, supporters of the Imamia Student Organisation, burn US and Israeli flags, during an anti American-Israeli rally in Karachi, Pakistan, yesterday.
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GOLAN HEIGHTS, Majdal Shams, (AP):

Israeli troops clashed with Arab protesters yesterday along three hostile borders, including the frontier with Syria, leaving 16 people dead and dozens more wounded in an unprecedented wave of demonstrations marking a Palestinian day of mourning for their defeat at Israel's hands in 1948.

Along Israel's border with Syria, thousands of protesters stormed the fence and hundreds burst through, pelting soldiers with stones, the military said. Soldiers guarding the border opened fire to stop them. Dozens were wounded and four were reported killed.

Israeli defence officials said the military had not expected protesters to try to breach the border and was caught by surprise.