Syrian jets hit Lebanese territory near border

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Syrian jets hit Lebanese territory near border
By BASSEM MROUEBy BASSEM MROUE, Associated Press??

A Syrian man who fled his home in Aleppo 32 days ago due to government shelling, carries his sleeping son, who's face is covered with mosquito bites, back to a classroom of a school where they take refuge, in Suran, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

A Syrian man who fled his home in Aleppo 32 days ago due to government shelling, carries his sleeping son, who's face is covered with mosquito bites, back to a classroom of a school where they take refuge, in Suran, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

A book is left on the ground at the yard of a school destroyed in government airstrike in Tel Rifaat, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012. A new school year began in Syria on Sunday, but the country's agonizing civil war is keeping thousands of students out of classrooms across the country. Many schools have been destroyed or are home to refugees. Some parents are simply too afraid to send their children to school due over fears of violence. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Syrians clear the rubble of a house was destroyed in government airstrike on Saturday, in Kal Jubrin, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Syrians clear the rubble of a house which was destroyed in government airstrike on Saturday, in Kal Jubrin, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

BEIRUT (AP) ? Lebanese security officials say four missiles fired by two Syrian warplanes have landed on Lebanese territory.

The officials say the missiles hit a rugged and remote area on the edge of the Lebanese border town of Arsal on Monday. There were no immediate reports of casualties.

In recent months there have been clashes on the Syrian side of the frontier in the area between rebels and Syrian troops.

Lebanese forces have in the past detained people caught trying to smuggle weapons into Syria from Lebanon in the region.

Syrian shells have hit Lebanese territory in the past but the air raid appears to be the most serious violation since Syria's crisis began in March last year.

Associated Press

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30 inmates escape from Mexican prison near US border

US authorities have been alerted that 30 escaped inmates from a northern Mexican prison may be near the border.

By Reuters / September 17, 2012

Mexican nationals Javier Saladad (l.) and Hector Guevara (r.) look over the single fence separating Mexico from the United States in Smugglers Gulch near San Diego in 2005. On Monday 30 inmates escaped a Mexican prison near the border.

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More than 30 inmates have escaped from a prison in northern Mexico on the border with the United States, authorities in the state of Coahuila said on Monday.

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Jorge Luis Moran, chief of public security in Coahuila, said the convicts had escaped through a tunnel dug in the carpentry section of the prison in the city of Piedras Negras.

US authorities have been alerted to help capture the fugitives if they try to cross the border, Moran added.

Some media reports said more than 100 prisoners had broken out, though that figure has not been confirmed.

There have been numerous breakouts in the last few years from Mexico's struggling penal system, where guards are frequently accused of complicity with drug cartels.

At the end of 2010, more than 140 inmates escaped a prison in the border city of Nuevo Laredo.

Northern Mexico has been hit particularly hard by violence stemming from brutal turf wars between drug gangs.

President Felipe Calderon, who leaves office in November, has used the military to try and crack down on the gangs, and has captured or killed many of the country's top kingpins.

However, violence has surged on his watch, and fighting between cartels and their clashes with security forces have claimed more than 55,000 lives over the past six years.

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