Scores of wounded Syrian rebels flee into Leba**n after ambush

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Forty one wounded Syrian rebels crossed a river into Leba**n on Thursday after the Syrian army ambushed the fighters as they tried to flee a besieged area, two Lebanese medical sources in the area said. Eight more rebels either arrived dead or succumbed to their wounds after managing to escape Syria into the **rthern Lebanese area of Wadi Khaled, said the sources, a hospital employee and a medic who requested a**nymity. Leba**n's border area has been steadily sucked into Syria's three-year-old conflict as President Bashar al-Assad's forces attack nearby rebel bases. On Thursday, Syrian army shells hit villages in Wadi Khaled as the rebels escaped, Leba**n's National News Agency reported.

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