Syrian forces kill another two civilians

NICOSIA: Syria's security forces shot dead a man and a woman as they pursued a crackdown on protest ahead of expected mass demonstrations after Ramadan Friday prayers, a rights activist said.

The man was killed early Friday while trying to flee when security forces began arresting residents in the Damascus suburb of Saqba, Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told AFP.

The woman was killed in a security force operation in the town of Kahn Sheikhun in northwestern Idlib province, he added.

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011