Pro-Assad Rally. Photo: Wiki Commons

Reuters – Security forces killed a demonstrator in the northwestern town of Idlib and a 17-year-old youth in the central city of Hama, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, adding that five people had been wounded when security forces fired on demonstrators in the town of Kafr Shams, outside Damascus.

The Local Coordination Committees, an activist group, put the death toll at eight, including two in Homs and two in Hama.

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