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Mourners shot dead at Syrian funerals

23 April 2011 16:08 (UTC +04:00)

Baku â€“ APA. Snipers shot dead at least three mourners Saturday in Douma, a suburb of the Syrian capital where funerals were underway for several protesters killed the previous day, witnesses said, APA reports quoting â€œJakarta Globeâ€.

The gunmen opened fire from roof-tops as a funeral procession made its way to a cemetery, killing at least three mourners and wounding one, a witness and a human rights activist in Douma told AFP by telephone.

Tens of thousands of mourners marched in the procession, setting off from a mosque in Douma to the cemetery, they said.

More than 80 people were killed when Syrian security forces fired live rounds and tear gas at massive protests nationwide a day after President Bashar al-Assad ended nearly five decades of emergency rule, activists and rights groups have said.