Number of Syrians killed Sun. rises to 25
Date: 29/04/2012      Time: 11:28:00 PM
 
The number of Syrians killed by government forces on Sunday has risen to 25 people, including a women and a child, most of them perished in Hama and Homs, the local coordination committees said. Meanwhile, 16 Syrian soldiers announced defection from the army, added the committees. They added that security and army forces escalated attacks in different Syrian cities as head of the international observers' mission Major-General Robert Mood was arriving in Damascus. Government forces executed artillery attack on neighborhood of Al-Maadhamieh in the countryside of Damascus, coupled with wide-scale arrests and assaults on civilians. The Syrian army forces also carried out assaults on anti-government protesters in different cities.