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Summary Syrian troops used tear gas to disperse a mass funeral attended by thousands of people in Damascus.
Syrian regime troops used tear gas on Saturday to try to disperse a mass funeral attended by thousands of people who took to the streets of Damascus to mourn slain protesters, a rights group said.Syrian regime forces used tear gas to disperse people attending the funerals of the Kfar Sousa martyrs and calling for the fall of the regime, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.The protests were staged after deadly blasts rocked Damascus and the countrys second city Aleppo earlier on Saturday, the Observatory said.The violence came just two days before a scheduled parliamentary election in Syria, where President Bashar al-Assads regime has been trying to crush an uprising since March 2011.One explosion hit a car wash as a bus was passing in a suburb of Aleppo, the countrys northern commercial hub, said Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory.At least five people were killed in the blast, he told AFP in Beirut.The state-run SANA news agency reported three deaths in Aleppo, and said 21 others were wounded, two of them critically.
