Syria troops kill 10, seven in Homs: rights group

NICOSIA: Syrian security forces killed 10 civilians on Friday, seven of them in the flashpoint central city of Homs, where anti-regime protests were expected after the main weekly Muslim prayers, rights activists said.

Aside from the seven in Homs, one civilian died when security forces opened fire on a funeral procession in the Daraa region, another centre of protests against President Bashar al-Assad's rule south of the capital, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in an emailed statement to AFP in Nicosia.

Two other civilians died in the central province of Hama, it said.

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