At least 59 people were killed by government forces that shelled buildings and by snipers that fired on civilians in Syria Monday, according to opposition activists.
Heavy shelling rained on Homs, which has been a hotbed of anti-government sentiment, with at least 33 people killed there, the activists said.
Security forces ambushed Syrian activist Jassim Khaled Diab on Saturday while he was trying to evacuate an injured person across the border into Lebanon, anti-government forces said.
The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency reported that Homs residents thanked Syrian troops Sunday “for restoring security and stability to their neighborhood and saving them from the horror of the armed terrorist groups.”
On Monday, SANA said authorities had killed and wounded members of an “armed terrorist group” that were trying to infiltrate Syria from Turkey.
The Syrian government routinely blames the vaguely defined “armed terrorist groups” for violence in the country, while most reports from inside Syria indicate the government is slaughtering civilians in an attempt to wipe out dissidents.
