Affrontements à Baniyas : 4 morts – 10 avril 2011

Deadly clashes hit Syrian town of Banias

AFP

10 04 2011

DAMASCUS — Syrian government forces killed at least four people and wounded 17 when they strafed a residential area of the coastal town of Banias with gunfire for hours on Sunday, witnesses told AFP.

A Syrian security officer was later killed and another was wounded when their patrol was ambushed in the northwestern coastal town, the official SANA news agency reported.

The latest deadly violence came one day after mourners in the southern town of Daraa, epicentre of more than three weeks of pro-democracy protests, buried around 20 demonstrators killed by security forces.

In Banias, the civilian toll was at least four dead and 17 wounded on Sunday from shooting by security forces in the neighbourhood of Ras al-Nabee, where the Al-Rahman mosque has been a focal point of anti-regime demonstrations.

« The army and security forces and gunmen besieged the town from all sides and fired without interruption for several hours, » a university professor told AFP. Read more…