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Syrian security forces fire bullets and tear gas at Homs protesters

Daily Mirror

by Steve Myall,

20/04/2011

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SYRIAN security forces are said to have fired on crowds yesterday as anti-government protesters staged a sit-in.

An activist in the city of Homs said: “They shot at everything. I saw people on the ground, some shot in their feet, some in the stomach.”

Bullets and tear gas were fired at 2am, after demonstrators had gathered with mattresses and food in the central Clock Square, vowing an Egypt-style stand-off until President Bashar Assad stepped down. It is unknown how many were killed or injured. Read more…

~ par Alain Bertho sur 20 avril 2011.

Publié dans émeutes, riots, الشغب