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US forces kill 7 inside Syria: eyewitnesses
Oct 26, 2008, 17:14 GMT
Damascus - Local residents in a Syrian border town near Iraq reported Sunday that US forces killed seven men in a helicopter-borne commando attack inside Syria.
Doctors in the town of Al-Sukkariya, some eight kilometres from the Iraqi border, said a further seven persons were taken to a nearby clinic with bullet wounds.
The eyewitness accounts said that the US soldiers had landed in the town in helicopters.
The seven who were killed were construction workers, the eyewitness acounts said.
There was no initial US comment about the reported incident.
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