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"Unverifiable video footage posted on the internet showed security forces
clubbing a dead body in the street before dragging it away."
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29 April 2011 Last updated at 19:19 GMT
Syria: 'Dozens die' in protests across country
Protesters shout slogans during a demonstration after Friday prayers in the
Syrian port city of Baniyas on 29 April 2011 Anti-government protests in Syria
have grown over the past six weeks
At least 48 people have been killed across Syria as thousands of
anti-government demonstrators rallied in several cities, reports say.
Witnesses and human right groups said many died when troops opened fire on
protesters in the city of Deraa, where the unrest began in mid-March.
The security forces swamped the streets of the capital Damascus and tear gas
was reportedly fired as prayers ended.
Rallies were also reported in Homs, Latakia and Baniyas.
Witnesses and a Syrian human rights group said troops opened fire on villagers
marching on Deraa, which has been under military blockade since Monday.
Fifteen bullet-riddled bodies of civilians had been received at a hospital near
the city, a medical source told Reuters news agency.
'Soldiers killed'
Syrian state media said meanwhile that four soldiers had been killed and two
others captured in a "terrorist" attack on their post in Deraa on Friday. That
report cannot be verified.
Continue reading the main story
At the scene
A correspondent BBC News, Damascus
As the call to prayer rang out at the Umayyad (Great Mosque) in central
Damascus, small groups of men gathered. Uniformed security was just visible on
the surrounding roads. Once prayers had finished the crowd gathered on the
square outside, chanting slogans against President Bashar al-Assad until the
imam came out and called for calm.
It took just five minutes for the square to empty. But I sensed the tension.
One tourist had all his pictures deleted by plain-clothed men, probably
officials. I went back to look inside the mosque, but was locked in by the
gatekeepers, who released me after a brief exchange of words.
But as I walked away I saw men with wooden sticks gathering in the main square.
When I tried to take a photo someone hit me on the back of the head and told me
to leave. As I left I spotted more small groups of men on the street and police
stopping vehicles to check their identity.
Activists and human rights groups say the recent crackdown on anti-government
dissent has left some 500 people dead.
There has been growing international criticism of the response to protests
against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
In other developments:
* The UN Human Rights Council in Geneva condemned violence by the Syrian
authorities, in a US-led resolution by 26 votes to nine with seven abstentions
* US officials said Washington would bring sanctions against the Syrian
regime, freezing the assets of three top officials
* The EU met in Brussels to discuss sanctions against President Bashar
al-Assad's regime
As has become typical during months of protests in a number of Middle East
countries, Friday was billed as a "day of rage" in Syria.
Tear gas was fired at protesters in the old Midan area of Damascus, as
demonstrations also flared in the city's suburbs.
A BBC reporter in the capital, who cannot be named for security reasons, said a
crowd gathered to shout anti-regime slogans after prayers at the city's Great
Mosque.
An imam called for calm and the men dispersed. Our correspondent later saw
unidentified men wielding wooden sticks in the main square and police stopping
vehicles to check passengers' identities.
Protesters in the northern Syrian town of Qamishli on 29 April 2011 (mobile
phone image) Protests have also been reported in the city of Qamishli in
Syria's north
Demonstrations also erupted in the northern cities of Homs, Aleppo, Idlib, Deir
Ezzor, Raqqah and Qamishli; the coastal cities of Latakia, Baniyas and Tartous;
the southern city of Suwayda and the western city of Hama.
There are unconfirmed reports of security forces shooting protesters dead in
Homs and Latakia.
Hundreds of people in a northern Jordanian town, next to Syria, demonstrated in
support of the protesters just over the border in Deraa, Jordanian police said.
Ahead of the protests, a notice on the Facebook page Syrian Revolution 2011
called for a "Friday of Anger".
"To the youths of the revolution, tomorrow we will be in all the places, in all
the streets," it said.
Protests were backed this week by the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist
organisation crushed by President Assad's father in the 1980s and banned ever
since.
"Chant with one voice for freedom and dignity," said the statement, thought to
be the first direct appeal by the group. "Do not allow the tyrant to enslave
you."
'Corpse clubbed'
In Deraa, dozens of people are reported to have been shot dead in recent days.
Some bodies are still in the streets as snipers are said to be targeting anyone
who tries to retrieve the dead.
Unverifiable video footage posted on the internet showed security forces
clubbing a dead body in the street before dragging it away.
Witnesses said water, communications and power had been cut off.
There are unconfirmed reports of divisions within the security forces and of
soldiers refusing orders to fire on protesters.
On Wednesday, 200 members of Syria's ruling Baath party resigned after issuing
an angry public statement denouncing the repression.
The resignations - mostly from around Deraa - follow those of 30 Baath
officials from the coastal city of Baniyas, north-west of Damascus.
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