Conflict spreads to Syria's 2nd main city Syrians who crossed the border into Lebanon on Saturday gave harrowing accounts of intense street fighting and attacks by government helicopters and tanks in residential areas of Damascus as basic supplies such as bread and water dwindled. As many as 30,000 Syrians may have crossed into Lebanon in recent days, a spokeswoman for the United Nations said Friday. Among the crowds at the border Saturday was 19-year-old Domou, an Iraqi woman married to a Syrian man, whose life was upended in the span of one week as Damascus descended into chaos. Last Sunday, Domou and her husband were elated when she gave birth to a boy at a hospital in Damascus. Three days later, the baby died in an incubator when electricity was cut across the capital after the attack on the top officials. When chaos began to spread across the city, the couple realized they had to get their young daughter out. After my baby died, I got very scared for my daughter. I knew we had to leave," said Domou, a soft-spoken woman wearing a black abaya and brown scarf. Like others, she spoke on the condition that her full name not be used, fearing for her safety. Domou said that she and her family walked several miles to escape the shelling and helicopter attacks in her neighborhood, Sayida Zeinab, before they found a driver. As they drove through the capital, Domou said she witnessed nightmarish scenes. In one neighborhood, she saw a group of boys and teenagers kicking a corpse while chanting "shabiha," the name of a militia group fighting alongside government forces. In another neighborhood, she saw an ambulance filled with bodies careening through garbage-filled streets. "I believe the situation is going to get worse," she said. I don't know when we can go back. Fear and anger at the border Some of the cars that crossed the Lebanese border Saturday were piled high with large suitcases, mattresses, bicycles and even air-conditioning units, a sign that the passengers did not anticipate returning to Syria anytime soon. Tempers flared in the blazing afternoon heat and the sound of car horns and insults mixed with the sales pitch of money-changers holding fat stacks of Lebanese pounds. Many people at the border Saturday were critical of the Syrian government, but most appeared deeply uneasy talking about it even on Lebanese territory, with some looking over their shoulder and whispering "shabiha" if strangers got too close. Some denied there was any fighting at all in Syria. "We are coming to Lebanon to go to the beach," one young woman sitting in the back of a black sport-utility vehicle said with a smile. The situation in Damascus is okay. The Syrian army has everything under control.