A sister, right, and an unidentified relative of Ali Shaaban, a television cameraman working for the Al Jadeed television station who was shot dead on the Lebanon-Syria border, mourn at their home in Beirut April 9, 2012. (AP Photo)
Updated at 3:59 p.m. ET
(CBS/AP) KILIS, Turkey - The bloody conflict in Syria spilled across two tense borders Monday when gunfire from government forces killed a cameraman in Lebanon and wounded at least six people in a refugee camp in Turkey, authorities said.
The violence came as a U.N.-brokered truce plan set to take effect on Tuesday all but collapsed, bolstering fears that the uprising could spark a broader conflagration by sucking in neighboring countries.
International envoy Kofi Annan brokered a cease-fire, but the plan is in tatters. Syrian troops were meant to pull out of population centers by Tuesday morning, but President Bashar Assad's government on Sunday introduced a new, last-minute demand — saying forces cannot withdraw without written guarantees from opposition fighters that they will lay down their arms.
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Syria's main rebel group, the Free Syrian Army, rejected the government's demand for a written guarantee, but says it will abide by its promise under Annan's plan to stop fighting — as long as the regime does too.
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