24 killed in Syria, Russia slams EU ban - The West Australian
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Security forces have killed three people in northwest Syria as a punitive EU oil embargo came into effect, a day after anti-regime protests that activists said cost 21 lives.
The latest crackdown by Syrian forces on Saturday comes despite the EU slapping Damascus with the embargo, a move criticised by Syria's longtime ally Russia.
"Two men were killed and five wounded in Maarrat in Idlib region during an incursion by tanks and 50 buses carrying members of the security forces," said the Local Co-ordination Committees (LCC), which have activists on the ground.
The LCC said "another political activist from the central city of Hama was killed in the same way as the other two when the army opened fire on civilians who were watching the troops".
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory of Human Rights said the latest security operation was "to hunt down wanted people", adding that according to an activist in the region, it was "intended to track down the attorney-general Hama Adnan al-Bakkur, who recently announced his resignation".
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