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Over 24 hours, 11,000 flee from Syria violence

There’s no civil war,Assad says on TV

By DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFF FROM WIRE REPORTS

Posted: November 10, 2012 at 4:39 a.m.

Credit: AP
Young Syrians demonstrate Friday in Aleppo, dancing and stomping on a likeness of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

As many as 11,000 people fled Syria in 24 hours, some of them desperately clambering through a razor-wire fence into Turkey on Friday to escape fierce fighting between rebels and government forces for control of a border town.

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