Syria, Bahrain (and Beyond) Live Coverage: Will the Regime Challenge the Protests?
Friday, April 13, 2012 at 4:39 | James Miller in Africa, EA Global, EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran Mass demonstration last night in Freedom Square in Deir Ez Zor, Syria
1919 GMT: According to the Local Coordinating Committees of Syria, they have been able to confirm the deaths of 13 so far today:
3 martyrs were documented in Hama as a result of sporadic gunfire at the protesters, 2 martyrs in each of Daraa and Aleppo as a result of sporadic gunfire at protesters. Also, 2 martyrs were documented in Idlib and one of corpses was un-identified. 2 martyrs in Homs in a random shelling at some neighborhoods. 1 martyr in Daraya, Damascus suburbs, in a sporadic gunfire by security forces at the protesters and 1 martyr in Hasaka, a defected recruit who was executed.
Homs, and several surrounding towns, were heavily shelled once again today. In this video, a building burns as heavy gunfire fills the background in Qosour:
Ahmed Al Omran provides this video, a wider view of the Khalidiya district of Homs:
Video reportedly shows shelling on Homs today, sounds of intense gunfire youtube.com/watch?v=bo6qOx… #SYRIA
— Ahmed Al Omran (@ahmed) April 13, 2012