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Syria was bracing for further violence on Sunday following the funerals of protesters killed in a crackdown in the southern town of Daraa, while five people were wounded in a shooting in the coastal town of Banias. President Bashar al-Assad said on Sunday that "Syria was on the road to generalized reforms" and hoped to "learn from European experiences," according to the official SANA news agency. Government agents, dressed in plain clothes, wounded five people in the port of Banias in a drive-by shooting during morning prayers, a witness said. Meanwhile, Syrian rights watchdogs put the death toll of a crackdown Friday at 28, with 26 killed in the protest hub of Daraa and two more in the central industrial city of Homs, in a statement that included the names of those killed. Earlier, Ammar Qurabi, chairman of the Syrian National Human Rights Organization, speaking from Cairo, had cited 37 dead, with 30 deaths in Daraa, three in Homs, as well as three in Harasta and one in Douma, both suburbs of Damascus. Syrian security forces shot at protesters in Daraa on Saturday, wounding two people, an activist said, as a huge crowd buried those who had fallen during a crackdown on demonstrators the previous day. AFP |
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