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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Fierce attacks across Syria leave 101 dead; Annan sets to address U.N. on crisis

By Al Arabiya with Agencies
 
Fierce clashes erupted after Syria’s regime sent reinforcements into rebel areas on Wednesday despite a truce pledge, while the U.N. said it was rushing a team to Damascus to pave the way for peace monitors. 

At least 101 people were killed by security force gunfire on Wednesday across Syria, the Syrian Revolution General Commission reported.

Seven people were killed in the central city of Homs − four rebels who died in clashes with the regular army in the neighborhood of Qussur and three civilians, including a man and his son, the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights said.


Also in Homs province, three civilians, including a woman were killed by rockets near the border with Lebanon, while a soldier was killed in heavy fighting in the rebel city of Qusayr.


In the province of Idlib in Jabal al-Zawiya area a former political prisoner Ahmed al-Othman and his brother were killed as tank fire struck their car.


An elderly man was also killed in indiscriminate firing in the province as houses were burned and raided in the village of Taftanaz, the Observatory said.
 

In Deir Ezzor, a rebel hiding in the village of Zibari was killed by gunfire, while in Damascus a "bomb under the car of a pro-regime man" exploded causing no casualties.  

Three civilians were killed and 15 wounded in an explosion in a building in the town of Beit Sahem.

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