DAMASCUS (AA) - At least 71 people were killed on Sunday in attacks staged by the Syrian regime in several cities across Syria, activists said.
There were five children and nine women among the dead.
Assad forces killed 28 people in the suburbs of the capital Damascus, 15 in Aleppo, 11 in Homs, seven in Deir ez-Zor, five in Deraa, three in Quneitra, one in Hassake 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 claimed in a statement that the Free Syrian Army (FSA) downed an Assad regime war plane in Homs.
On the other hand, Syrian national news agency SANA announced that regime forces had made major gains against opposition fighters in operations across the country.
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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