DAMASCUS- Snipers shot dead at least three mourners Saturday in Douma, a suburb of the Syrian capital where funerals were underway for several protesters killed the previous day, witnesses said.
SANA: Fabricated Videos of Acts of Violence in Syria
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DAMASCUS- Syrian Army personnel on Friday found mobile phones using non-Syrian SIM cards and positioning software and digital cameras containing short fabricated videos depicting acts of violence and fake repression of protests, according to SANA.
DAMASCUS- Syrian Army personnel on Friday found mobile phones using non-Syrian SIM cards and positioning software and digital cameras containing short fabricated videos depicting acts of violence and fake repression of protests, according to SANA.
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SANA added “The phones and cameras were carried by members of an armed criminal group that attacked a military location in Rakhem al-Hirak area in Daraa countryside.
The group members also carried clubs, swords and metal implements that were used during protests against security forces, in addition to bottles full of real blood to be used in filming fabricated acts of violence and bottles filled with gasoline to start fires.”
The gunmen opened fire from roof-tops as a funeral procession made its way to a cemetery, killing at least three mourners and wounding one, a witness and a human rights activist in Douma told AFP by telephone.
The people of al-Midan quarter in Damascus refuted claims by some malicious media sources that the police opened fire and used tear gas to disperse gatherings in the area on Friday afternoon.
One of the citizens said that there were no gatherings or any sign of such things in the quarter, expressing surprise over what is shown on some channels, while another citizen said that security prevails across the entire quarter from al-Ashmar Square to Bab Msalla, and that what some channels are broadcasting are mere lies.
Two policemen were killed and 11 were wounded in attacks launched by armed groups in Damascus and Homs on Friday.
A source at the Syrian Interior Ministry said that Tarek Makkawi and Simon Isa were martyred after armed groups shot them in the Moadamieh area in Damascus and the Bab Amr area in Homs.
An armed group on Friday opened fire on fire engines and hit them with stones in the Juber area in Damascus, according to SANA.
The fire engines were on their way to extinguish fire after receiving a call from the area's inhabitants in this regard.
Several firemen were seriously injured and were taken to a hospital.
In a statement to the Syrian Satellite Channel, one of the firefighters said that they headed to Juber to extinguish a fire at a gas station, and when they reached there, a gathering started throwing stones on them despite the fact that the fire engines were not close or heading towards them.
The people of al-Midan quarter in Damascus refuted claims by some malicious media sources that the police opened fire and used tear gas to disperse gatherings in the area on Friday afternoon.
One of the citizens said that there were no gatherings or any sign of such things in the quarter, expressing surprise over what is shown on some channels, while another citizen said that security prevails across the entire quarter from al-Ashmar Square to Bab Msalla, and that what some channels are broadcasting are mere lies.
Two policemen were killed and 11 were wounded in attacks launched by armed groups in Damascus and Homs on Friday.
A source at the Syrian Interior Ministry said that Tarek Makkawi and Simon Isa were martyred after armed groups shot them in the Moadamieh area in Damascus and the Bab Amr area in Homs.
An armed group on Friday opened fire on fire engines and hit them with stones in the Juber area in Damascus, according to SANA.
The fire engines were on their way to extinguish fire after receiving a call from the area's inhabitants in this regard.
Several firemen were seriously injured and were taken to a hospital.
In a statement to the Syrian Satellite Channel, one of the firefighters said that they headed to Juber to extinguish a fire at a gas station, and when they reached there, a gathering started throwing stones on them despite the fact that the fire engines were not close or heading towards them.
