Syria's military moved into Banias Saturday morning and security forces killed three women who were scrambling after detained men in the Mediterranean coastal city, according to activists and a resident, despite the strongest yet U.S. condemnation a day earlier of the continued crackdown on protesters.
Security forces opened fire on a group of women who had run out onto the street to question the mass round-up and detention of their husbands, sons and brothers, a resident reached by telephone said. The resident said he was speaking from a town on the city's periphery, having fled to make phone calls since electricity and phone services were cut off on Friday.
"The army came in, they searched the whole town, and then retreated," the resident said. "After that, the security forces came in and started raiding homes and detaining people." He said he couldn't estimate the number of people detained, but that security forces rounded up "three, big buses full of men." One of the women killed was 25 years old, he said. More...
Security forces opened fire on a group of women who had run out onto the street to question the mass round-up and detention of their husbands, sons and brothers, a resident reached by telephone said. The resident said he was speaking from a town on the city's periphery, having fled to make phone calls since electricity and phone services were cut off on Friday.
"The army came in, they searched the whole town, and then retreated," the resident said. "After that, the security forces came in and started raiding homes and detaining people." He said he couldn't estimate the number of people detained, but that security forces rounded up "three, big buses full of men." One of the women killed was 25 years old, he said. More...
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