syriaBEIRUT: More than 200 people, mostly civilians, were killed on Wednesday in violence across Syria, including 38 in Damascus where armed rebels are pressing an all-out offensive, a monitoring group said.

At least 214 people -- 124 civilians, 62 soldiers and 28 rebels died in one of the bloodiest days of a 16-month revolt against President Bashar al-Assad's regime, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Thursday.

The figure did not include three members of Assad's inner circle who died in a Wednesday bomb attack on security headquarters in the heart of the capital.

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2012

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