Almost 100 people were killed in a series of violent attacks in war-torn Syria on Monday, including 55 civilians who died in the attacks, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Among the 96 that were killed, 25 soldiers, 10 dissident soldiers and six members of security services died in what is one of the mosts bloodiest days in Syria since the revolt against embattled President Bashar al-Assad.
In a statement, the watchdog group said 40 civilians were killed in Homs, a flashpoint region in Syria. Nine were killed in Syria’s southern Daraa region where the revolt began more than 10 months ago, five in outlying districts of Damascus and one in northwestern Idlib region.
Monday’s violence follows even more killings on Sunday when 80 people, an equal mix of civilians and military personnel, were killed in deadly clashes.
As the country slowly descends into a deadly civil war and the death toll rises daily, Syrian opposition has called on the international community to intervene and bring an end to the killings.
The United Nations Security Council met today to discuss finding a lasting solution to the violence. They have been accused of sitting back and watching as the violence spills out of control.
Reports say over 7,000 have been killed since the start of Syria’s uprising in March 2011. The past three months have easily been Syria’s bloodiest, resulting in 3,029 deaths.
