Opposition: 35 killed in Syria as regime attacks escape route to Lebanon

At least 35 people were killed in Syria on Tuesday as government forces took aim at citizens across the country, opposition activists said.

The deaths included 23 people in the opposition stronghold of Homs, according to the Local Coordination Committees of Syria, a network of opposition activists. 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 group. As many as 2,000 Syrians have crossed into Lebanon since Sunday, according to Dana Suleiman, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in Beirut, Lebanon. She said the refugees came from Homs province. Refugees were also fleeing the northern Syria city of Idlib after a threat of government shelling, according to the Binnish Coordination Committee local opposition group. The Syrian regime gave an ultimatum to Free Syrian Army opposition fighters in Idlib, saying the city would be shelled if they did not hand over their weapons, the group said.