67264241 A city in northern Syria was ready to storm
Residents of Jisr al-Shugurov, located in northern Syria, were ready to defend their town from the storm, which is planning the government troops. As told BBC News on the air one of the townspeople to resist the troops are ready for about five thousand men. Local residents, mostly sent their families across the border to neighboring Turkey, and themselves built barricades in the streets and ready to fight for their city. According to the caller, "they have no other choice." Check the reliability of this information is not yet possible: foreign journalists in Syria are not allowed. The government, in turn, contends that it is prepared to use force to regain control of Jisr al-Shugurov. Need for an aggressive assault on the settlement came after local residents killed police squad aimed at the suppression of protests. According to an official of Damascus, killing 120 police. At the same time The opposition claimed that the dead were killed by government forces for refusing to fire on demonstrators. Meanwhile, the flow of refugees from Syria to Turkey continues unabated. As reported by foreign correspondents who are on the Turkish side, near the border to camp, where hundreds of refugees waiting for news from the Jisr al-Shugurov. Locals Cypriots told that the Syrians were whole families began to cross the border some time ago, after which many men, leaving wives and children to safety, returned to his homeland to join the rebels. As previously reported, anti-government uprising in Syria began in March. Since then, various cities across the country were marked by clashes of protesters with the police, but until now the fighting before the events in the Jisr al-Shugurov is not reached.
