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Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - Four Syrians died at the Ramtha Government Hospital Saturday of wounds sustained during battles raging in the southern city of Daraa between Syrian government forces and rebels, according to the hospital's director, Yousef Tahat. He said another 21 injured Syrians, who had been ferried across the border, were being hospitalized in the northern border city's main hospital.

Tahat said the hospital crews had offered medical aid to those injured in gunfire, who had managed to cross the border fence in the Syrian village of Tal Shehab to Thneibeh, the northernmost Jordanian village on the frontier with Syria. He said some of the critically wounded will be moved to other health ministry hospitals.

The hospital receives several cases of injured Syrians daily and offers them treatment as part of a deal signed with the international medical humanitarian organisation, Doctors Without Borders, under the health ministry's supervision, Tahat said.

The southern Daraa region has been the scene of ferocious fighting in the past days between Syrian opposition factions and government troops. A shell from the war had landed in a bustling market in Ramtha two days ago, killing 23-year-old Jordanian engineering student Abdel Munim al Hourani and wounding four other people.