A car has exploded during a funeral in a Damascus killing several people, as the United Nations refugee agency warned that the number of Syrian refugees in Turkey could reach 200,00 as the conflict deepens.
The Observatory says more than 25,000 people have been killed since an uprising against Assad broke out in March last year Photo: Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images
3:26PM BST 28 Aug 2012
The Telegraph
The violence followed a bloody Monday in which 190 people – 116 civilians, 40 rebels and 34 soldiers – were killed across Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed the state television report of a blast in the capital’s southeastern Jaramana suburb, and said it was caused by a car bomb.
“In the suburb of Jaramana, a car laden with explosives hit a funeral held for two regime supporters,” said the Britain-based watchdog. “Some people were critically injured.”
The funeral was held for two people killed in a bomb attack on Monday, the Observatory said.
The attack came amid a marked escalation of army shelling targeting the eastern belt of Damascus, home to some of the rebel Free Syrian Army’s best organised battalions.
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The Observatory said that at least four soldiers were killed in fighting with rebels in Zamalka and Jubar, which followed fierce shelling through the night of the two eastern neighbourhoods as well as the adjacent districts of Qaboon and Ein Tarma.
On Monday, rebels from the Free Syrian Army claimed to have downed a military helicopter in Qaboon during heavy shelling and fierce fighting that also engulfed nearby Jubar as well as several towns outside the capital.
The offensive in the capital’s east follows a regime onslaught on its southwestern belt last week which, according to the opposition, included a massacre in the town of Daraya in which hundreds died.
Army bombardment Tuesday of the village of Kfar Nabal in the northwest province of Idlib, meanwhile, killed at least 13 civilians, including two women, according to the Observatory.
Gruesome footage released by the Syrian Revolution General Council, an activist network on the ground, shows pandemonium in Kfar Nabal as dozens of residents struggle to retrieve the mangled bodies of their neighbours beneath ashen coloured rubble.
Several small buses are engulfed in flames and plumes of billowing smoke are seen rising from shelled out building after what the SRGC said was an attack by warplanes.
Groups of men struggled to pick up several charred bodies, unloading them hastily on the back of a truck and the back seat of a car, which sped off for help. The footage could not be independently verified.
Elsewhere in Idlib, four rebels were killed in clashes in Ariha, while seven men were killed by government troops in the central province of Hama, bringing Tuesday’s initial toll by the Observatory to 31 victims.
In Syria’s second city Aleppo, government forces rained shells down on the Sukari district in the south and Hanano in the northeast, the Observatory reported, adding that one civilian died in shelling elsewhere in the province.
Two rebels were killed in fighting between the army and insurgents in the contested districts of Salaheddin and Saif al-Dawla in Aleppo’s southwest, it said.
Pro-regime Al-Watan newspaper on Tuesday reported that the army had “cleansed” the neighbourhood of Al-Izaa, adjacent to Saif al-Dawla district, from armed men and seized large quantities of arms and ammunition.
“This opens the way for cleansing the neighbourhood of Zabdiyeh and seizing the Saif al-Dawla and Sukari districts,” it said.
The army took back Salaheddin in early August, but pockets of resistance remain, while the rebels continue to hold sway over Saif al-Dawla and Sukari.
The Observatory says more than 25,000 people have been killed since an uprising against Assad broke out in March last year.
The figures are impossible to verify due to restrictions on the media.
Melissa Fleming, chief spokeswoman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told a news briefing: "The increase in the number of Syrians arriving in Turkey has been dramatic. Compared to previous weeks in which we saw about 400-500 people arriving a day, we've been seeing peaks of up to 5,000 people in one day over the past two weeks."
A growing number of unaccompanied children without parents are also turning up in camps, the UNHCR said. Refugees from the southern Syrian province of Deraa have reported being bombed by aircraft or shelled on their journey across the border.
"We are already looking at potentially up to 200,000 and are working with the Turkish government to make the necessary plans," another spokeswoman, Sybella Wilkes, told Reuters.
The figure would include the more than 74,000 Syrian refugees already registered in Turkey, which is building at least five new camps in addition to the existing nine.
In the past 24 hours, more than 3,000 Syrians crossed into Turkey, with a further 7,000 expected in coming days.
Source: Agencies
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