Syria Army Kills Protesters in Tank Shelling, Rights Group Says
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Syria deployed tanks to fire on demonstrators in an extension of a crackdown on anti-government protests that has engulfed the country for almost two months, according to a Syrian human-rights group.
The death toll in two days has been at least 22, with 13 people in shelling of a village outside the southern city of Daraa, where the uprising began in mid-March, said Ammar Qurabi, the head of the National Organization for Human Rights. At least five people died in an assault on the central city of Homs and four in Jassem, Qurabi said in a phone interview.