Eighteen killed in a new suppression of protests in Syria Friday

At least eighteen people today were shot by security forces and the army Syrian in the Suppression of the protests which, like every Friday since last March, have brought thousands of demonstrators against the regime to the street.

According to the opposition committees for coordinating Local, eight people died in Deraa (South), while three demonstrators died at Homs, feud in the Centre of the country of the opposition against the regime of Bashar Al-Assad.

Five other people were killed in the province of Hama also nationalist, while three others were killed in the province of Rif Damascus, near the capital, in the villages of Yabrud and Al Arabiyín.

The committees noted that three of the victims were minors, one of them a teenager of 14 years who died in Deraa.

On the other hand, the official news agency Sana reported that two members of the security forces were killed today and three others u000awere injured, including an officer, in attacks carried out by "terrorist armed groups" in Hama and Deraa.

Also, the committees indicated that there had been shooting into the crowd in the neighbourhood of Qusur and plaza de Jobb in Homs, where heard about ten explosions.

In ma'arrat Al Numan, in the province north of Idleb, more than 20 people were injured by police intervention to disperse a protest that chanted chants against the President of Syria, Bashar Al-Assad.

In another city of the same province, ma'arrat Al Misrin, large numbers of people took the market area with the help of people from the other surrounding villages and launched cries which called for countries to expel the ambassadors Syrian their capital.

That international isolation which claim the demonstrators could be increased in the last few hours, because tomorrow expires the ultimatum given by the Arab League to the regime of u000aDamascus to stop the violence and receive Arab observers on the ground.

Syria announced yesterday in writing to the agency Pan-Arab who will accept to receive the Mission of observers, provided be introduced "minor modifications" in the program, reported EfE an Arab diplomatic source who asked not be identified.

According to this source, the response of the Syrian Government ensures that "you accept the draft Protocol of the visit to its territory by the mechanisms of observation of the Arab League", and adds that it will sign the Protocol governing the contents of the groups of observation, the agenda and the way of the visit.

In a statement, the Secretary-General of the Arab League, Nabil Al Arabi, reported today that last night received a message from Syrian Foreign Minister, Walid Mualem, which includes the amendments proposed by the Syrian regime in the draft Protocol relating to the work of the Observer Mission, without giving more u000adetails.

The repression has made Syria more than 3,500 dead since the beginning of the riots in the middle of last March, according to the latest figures provided by the UN.

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