6 Children among 33 Dead in Syria
Shelling in the town of Herak, south of Damascus, killed seven people, six of them children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, taking the nationwide death toll for Tuesday to 33.
"At least seven civilians, including six children, were killed by regime forces shelling of the besieged town of Herak," the Britain-based watchdog said.
A video it distributed showed the bodies of dead children, including a young girl in a pink and white dress, lying on a blood-smeared floor, and the faces of some of them covered in blood.
"Herak has been under shelling for 10 days," an unidentified man says in the amateur video.
"The world is watching. Where are the Arabs and Muslims when these children are killed during Ramadan?" he pleaded, referring to the Muslim holy month which began last week.
"Where is Islam? You see these children in the blossom of their youth?
"Bashar, I hope your children will suffer the same fate," he screamed, addressing President Bashar Assad.
By early afternoon, the Observatory put the nationwide death toll at 33, including at least seven people killed when regime forces put down a prison mutiny in second city Aleppo.
The opposition Syrian National Council gave a higher toll, saying eight people were killed in the crushing of the mutiny, which followed a similar rebellion last week at the main prison in Syria's third-largest city Homs.
On Monday, violence killed 116 people -- 64 civilians, 17 rebel fighters and 35 soldiers, the Observatory said.
Source: Agence France Presse
| Copyright © 2012 Naharnet.com. All Rights Reserved. | https://cdn.naharnet.com/stories/en/47616 |