Syrian Observatory: Death Toll in New Syria Violence Hits 33
The death toll from a fresh surge of violence in Syrian flashpoints has risen to 33, rights activists said Wednesday, adding that among the dead are six children and teenagers and five army defectors.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in a statement that 28 civilians were killed on Tuesday by security force gunfire, in addition to the five defectors.
"Twenty-eight civilians were killed during search operations and indiscriminate firing from checkpoints manned by soldiers," it said.
Among the dead were 11 people killed in the besieged central city of Homs, six in southern Daraa, six in northwestern Idlib, three in Deir Ezzor to the east and two in central Hama.
The Britain-based rights group had previously given a toll of 17 dead on Tuesday, including five boys in the flashpoint central province of Homs and a 12-year-old in the east.
A key U.N. committee voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to condemn human rights violations by President Bashar Assad's government and called for an immediate end to all violence.
The nonbinding resolution adopted by the General Assembly's human rights committee calls on Syrian authorities to implement an Arab League peace plan, agreed to earlier this month, "without further delay."
It urges the withdrawal of government tanks from the streets, the release of political prisoners, a halt to attacks on civilians, and allowing observers into the country.
Source: Agence France Presse
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