Turkish border forces have shot dead refugees as they tried to escape the Syrian conflict, according to reports. A UK-based monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has claimed that 16 people seeking sanctuary in Turkey have been shot over the past four months. The Mail Online reports: The true number is believed to be higher, according to a Syrian police officer and a Syrian smuggler who lives in Turkey, but it is impossible to say exactly how many because the bodies of those who fell on the Syrian side of the border were dragged back to be buried in the war zone. The observatory details how a man and his child were killed in Ras al-Ain – on the eastern stretch of the Syria-Turkey border – on February 6. And two refugees were then shot dead at Guvveci on the western stretch of the border on March 5, The Times reported. According to the smuggler, refugees who cross the border will now ‘either be killed or captured’. He added: ‘Turkish soldiers used to help the refugees across, carry their bags for them. Now they shoot at them.’ The luckiest ones, the smuggler said, are those who fall on [...]