Syrian Forces Kill At Least 4 Civilians in Homs, Idlib
Syrian security forces shot dead at least four civilians on Sunday in Idlib province in the northwest and in Homs province in the center, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Among 17 dead on Saturday, the Britain-based watchdog reported seven civilians killed in the Idlib town of Kfar Kharim, close to the Turkish border.
The Observatory also quoted a mutinous officer as saying that two army deserters "were killed in clashes with regular troops in Qusayr" in the restive central province of Homs.
Also in central Syria on Saturday, "deserters raked with gunfire a car carrying four members of the air force intelligence near the village of al-Mukhtara on the Salmiyeh-Homs road, killing everyone on board", the Observatory said.
The Observatory and another key Syrian opposition group, the Local Coordination Committees, reported that the ruling Baath party in Damascus had been by hit several rocket-propelled grenades early on Sunday.
But an Agence France Presse reporter who went to the area found no trace of the attack while residents denied there had been explosions.
Source: Agence France Presse
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