04 September, 2011

Red Cross chief visits Syria as killings continue | World news | The Guardian

Red Cross chief visits Syria as killings continue | World news | The Guardian: "The deaths of several protesters and security personnel were reported in Syria on Sunday as the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) visited Damascus to seek access to activists arrested during the five-and-a-half-month uprising.

At least 14 people were shot dead across Syria, including in suburbs of the capital and the western cities of Homs and Hama, according to the Local Co-ordination Committees, an activist network.

A journalist, Amer Mattar, was among a wave of reported arrests that spread from the capital to the northern port city of Latakia and to Deir Ezzor, near the Iraqi border.

The government said nine people were killed when an "armed gang" opened fire with machine guns at a military bus in central Syria. The state news agency Sana said six soldiers and three civilians had died"

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