At least 55 people including 13 children and four women were killed on Tuesday in attacks staged by the Syrian regime in several cities across Syria, activists said.
Assad forces killed 19 people in Aleppo, nine in Homs, eight in Deraa, six in Deir-ez Zor, five in Idlib, four in the suburbs of capital Damascus, two in Hama, and one in Quneitra and Latakia each, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), a London-based group which tracks civilian and dissident casualties.
Meanwhile, the Syria Local Coordination Committee (SLCC) claimed that explosions and fierce clashes between the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and Syrian regime forces occurred in the northern city of Ar-Rakkah.
On the other hand, Syrian national news agency SANA announced that almost 500 children and women were moved to safe areas from the suburbs of the rural Muaddamiye region under the cooperation of the Minister of Social Affairs, Governorate of Damascus, and Syrian Red Crescent.
More than 100,000 people have been killed in the more than three year old conflict, according to the UN, while over two million people have fled the country to seek refuge in other countries, mostly neighboring Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon and Iraq.
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