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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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