Syrians Killed at Funeral as Two-Day Death Toll Reaches 62

Syrian forces killed 12 people in a funeral procession for anti-government activists, raising the two-day civilian death toll to at least 62, activists said.

The mourners were killed yesterday during the burial ceremony in Homs of 11 people killed the day before by security forces in the central city, Mahmoud Merhi, head of the Arab Organization for Human Rights said. At least one man was also killed by government forces during overnight raids on neighborhoods in the Damascus suburb of Sebqa, he said in a telephone interview.