Syria death toll hits 5,000 as insurgency spreads

2011/12/13 11:01:12 @Reuters: World News

AMMAN (Reuters) - Security forces shot dead 17 people in Syria on Tuesday and rebels killed seven police in an ambush, activists said, after the U.N. human rights chief put the death toll from nine months of protest against President Bashar al-Assad at 5,000.
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