AFP, Damascus, 14 July 2011 – Security forces killed four people in Syria on Thursday and used heavy machine-guns against protesters, rights groups said, as the West keeps pushing for UN action against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported two deaths in the central city of Homs, while the Arab League of Human Rights said two people were killed in Deir Ezzor, a city in eastern Syria.
More than 11 people were wounded, some seriously, in Homs, 160 kilometers (100 miles) north of Damascus, when security forces opened up with heavy machine-guns, the Syrian Observatory said.