Turkish army deploys more troops Syrian border after car bombs killed 40 people border town 1205131

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Turkish army deploys more troops to Syrian border after car bombs killed 40 people in a border town.
The Turkish army on Saturday, May 11, 2013, deploys more troops to the Syrian border after car bombs earlier in the day killed at least 40 people in a border town. Air and ground military reinforcements have started to arrive at the town of Reyhanli in southern Turkey's province of Hatay, after the blasts there earlier on Saturday claimed at least 40 lives and injured over 100.
     
The Turkish army on Saturday, May 11, 2013, deploys more troops to the Syrian border after car bombs earlier in the day killed at least 40 people in a border town. Air and ground military reinforcements have started to arrive at the town of Reyhanli in southern Turkey's province of Hatay, after the blasts there earlier on Saturday claimed at least 40 lives and injured over 100.
The site Saturday of one of the explosions in Reyhanli, near Turkey’s border with Syria
     

Two car bombs exploded in a Turkish town near the border with Syria on Saturday, killing at least 40 people and injuring some 100 others, officials said. The blasts raised fears that Syria`s brutal civil war violence was crossing into its neighbor.

The first bomb appeared to target the municipal offices in Reyhanli. A second, larger bomb went off near a traffic circle in a neighborhood that has in the past year become home to thousands of Syrians fleeing the war. The second blast tore off one side of a five-story building, destroyed a number of cars and ignited several fires.

Turkey's interior minister, Muammar Guler, said car bombs went off in the town of Reyhanli, just a few kilometers from a Syrian border crossing. Massive explosions devastated nearby buiildings, and ambulances rushed to the site Saturday to treat scores of victims.

Some few days ago, Turkey's prime minister has sai, "Turkey will support a US-enforced no-fly zone in Syria.

In an interview with NBC News, the Turkish prime minister said that President Bashar al-Assad's alleged use of chemical weapons against his opponents meant that the Syrian regime had already crossed US President Barack Obama's so-called red line "a long time ago".