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Summary At least 16 people were killed as the Syrian forces bombarded in Aleppo province on Saturday.
Regime forces bombarded a string of towns in Aleppo province on as at least 16 people including nine civilians, five soldiers and two rebels were killed in violence across Syria, monitors said.Two rebels and five soldiers were killed near the town of Andan in clashes and an attack on an army vehicle.Districts of the central city of Homs, under army bombardment for more than a month, were also being shelled on Saturday.The Syrian General Revolutionary Authority said the shelling intensified through the night in the Old Homs neighbourhood and Hamidiyeh, where “many people were buried under the rubble” of a collapsed building.Elsewhere in central Syria, three people were killed in a Hama village in indiscriminate shooting by regime forces, the Britain-based Observatory reported.In Damascus, regime forces clashed with rebels and stormed the neighbourhood of Barzeh, attempting to break a strike, while a taxi driver was shot dead in the same area.The Local Coordination Committees, made up of anti-regime activists on the ground, reported general strikes in areas in and around the capital to honour those killed in the anti-regime uprising.It said that “strikes in the souks of Medhat Pasha, Hareeqa and Hamidiyeh” were put down by regime troops who “broke the locks of the shops to force the owners to end the strike.”Outside the capital, the Observatory reported one person killed in Tadamun by regime forces, who renewed shelling on the Damascus suburbs of Sayyida Zeinab and Harasta.One person was killed in the eastern city of Deir Ezzor by gunfire, while two more civilians were killed in the southern province of Daraa and in northwest Idlib province by regime forces.The Observatory said 93 people, mostly civilians, were killed across Syria on Friday as protesters took to the streets in several provinces after being urged to call for a “People’s liberation war.”Over 16,500 people have been killed since the revolt against the regime of President Bashar Al Assad broke out in March of last year, according to the Observatory.
