Syrian forces killed at least 11 civilians on Sunday, six of them in the flashpoint region of Homs under siege for several weeks in an operation to crush dissent, a rights group said. The latest violence came as the Arab League prepared to vote on a set of diplomatic and economic sanctions against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime for defying an ultimatum to allow in observers.
Four civilians were also killed in Al-Khalidiyeh when troops and security forces raided the neighbourhood of Homs city, while two people were killed near Damascus, including a 14-year-old boy, and 13 civilians wounded as troops fired “indiscriminately” and made arrests in a raid on Rankuss district, said the Britain-based watchdog. Security forces killed at least two people and wounded eight others when they shot at mourners during the funeral of a man who had died in the eastern oil hub city of Deir Ezzor, it said.
