At least 14 people were killed in Syria Tuesday as government forces took aim at citizens across the country, opposition activists said.
The deaths include five people in Hama and three in the opposition stronghold of Homs, said the opposition Syrian Network for Human Rights.
Also in Homs, the Syrian military targeted a bridge on the Orontes River near the Lebanese border used as a crossing by wounded Syrian civilians, dissidents and refugees fleeing to Lebanon, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, another opposition activist group.
As many as 2,000 Syrians have crossed into Lebanon since Sunday, according to Dana Suleiman, spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Beirut, Lebanon. She said the refugees came from Homs province,