Tuesday 14 October 2014

Anger as wounded Kurdish fighters die stranded at Turkish border

By Ayla Jean Yackley SURUC Turkey (Reuters) - With medical supplies depleted in the war-ravaged north Syrian town of Kobani, Kurdish activist Blesa Omar rushed three comrades wounded in battle against Islamic State fighters straight to the border to dispatch them to a Turkish hospital. He said he spent the next four hours watching them die, one by one, from what he thinks were treatable shrapnel wounds as Turkish border guards refused to let them through the frontier. "To me it is clear they died because they waited so long. ... via Health News Headlines - Yahoo News Read More Here..

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