Thursday, September 27, 2012

Three hundred killed in single day in Syria, group says

A woman walks on rubble as she crosses a street after checking her damaged house in in Aleppo's district of Bustan Al-Basha September 26, 2012. REUTERS/Zain Karam
BEIRUT | Thu Sep 27, 2012 6:29am EDT
(Reuters) - More than 300 people were killed in Syria on Wednesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, in one of the bloodiest days in the 18-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.
World leaders meeting at the United Nations have expressed concern at the continuing violence in Syria but are deadlocked over their response to the conflict, which the Observatory says has claimed 30,000 lives since March 2011.
The British-based organization, which monitors violence in Syria through a network of activists, said in a report released on Thursday that 55 people were killed in rural areas around Damascus. They included at least 40 who appeared to have been shot in cold blood in the town of al-Dhiyabia, southeast of the capital.

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