Talkalakh: At least seven people were killed in Talkalakh, western Syria, on Sunday during a crackdown by security forces, activists have said. They died after “indiscriminate shelling” from the military, the Local Coordination Committees said.
Earlier, a resident told media that three protesters were shot dead as they left a mosque in the town.
Hundreds have fled the border town since Friday as authorities try to crush a revolt against the government.
Across Syria, more than 700 people have died in more than two months of protests against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, activists say.
The government says it is pursuing “armed terrorist gangs”, which it blames for the deaths of soldiers, security service personnel and police officers.
However, reports from Syria are hard to verify independently as foreign journalists are not allowed into the country.
In Talkalakh on Sunday, activists said two women and five men were killed by the military during “indiscriminate shelling of four districts in the town”.
At a nearby border crossing with Lebanon, a woman fleeing the violence was killed and five people injured, after gunfire from the Syrian side, Lebanese border officials said.
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