Syrian security forces killed on Sunday seven civilians, including a girl, in two towns located near Homs in central Syria, said a human rights advocate.
The militant said that two civilians were killed in Rastan and three in Talbisseh, by the security forces who stormed the city in the morning.
“Two other civilians were killed at Talbisseh in a neighboring village, bringing the number to seven” in this region, later said the militant, on condition of anonymity.
Among those killed in Rastan “there was a girl, Hajar al-Khatib”, he added.
“Over a hundred injured were transferred to national and military hospitals in Homs, a city located 100 miles north of Damascus, he said.
Another militant previously said that several people were injured in Talbisseh and Rastan, under conditions in which “dozens of tanks have surrounded the two cities, and Teir Maaleh village”, located between Homs and Hama.
In turn, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director, Rami Abdel-Rahman, contacted by telephone in London, said “the security forces began searches” at Talbisseh, which was an important theater Friday night of demonstrations against the regime.
The foreign press is not able to achieve any independent verification because of strict restrictions imposed by the regime.
Faced with a wave of unprecedented challenge, Bashar al-Assad regime sent the army in recent weeks into several cities, especially in Kalakh Tall (100 mile northwest of Damascus), Homs (center), Banias (northwest) and Deraa (south).