A Syrian woman sits between her daughters after she fled last Friday from violence from the western Syrian village of Tall Kalakh, in the Wadi Khaled area, about one kilometer from the Lebanon-Syria border. -AP Photo

NICOSIA: Syrian security forces killed at least eight people on Wednesday in Tall Kalakh, a besieged border town under shelling and automatic weapons fire, activists told AFP.

Several more people were wounded and could not be evacuated, the sources said.

On Tuesday, residents reached by telephone spoke of a “massacre” and said there were dozens of wounded in the streets.

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