As many as 30 people have been killed by the fire of Syrian security forces and army troops on Friday, Al Arabiya reported citing Syrian activists.
Most of the victims were reported in the restive city of Homs as Human Rights Watch accused the regime of crimes against humanity.
The Arab League, meanwhile, held a ministerial meeting to discuss the Syria crisis which, according to the United Nations, has claimed more than 3,500 lives since protests against President Bashar al-Assad erupted in mid-March.
The deaths came amid mass anti-regime rallies demanding the Arab League suspend Syria’s membership in the pan-Arab body to sanction its brutal, eight-month crackdown on dissent.
Security forces broke up demonstrations in al-Malaab, a main thoroughfare in Homs, but rallies relocated and mushroomed, engulfing eight neighborhoods, including aAl-Bayada, al-Ghuta and Baba Amr, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in a statement from Nicosia, according to AFP.
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Death toll rises as pressure mounts on Arab League over Syrian 'crimes'
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