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BEIRUT — Security forces opened fire Friday on demonstrators trying to break an army blockade on the southern city of Daraa, killing as many as 42 people, including children, as thousands across Syria defied a protest ban and denounced President Bashar Assad's crackdown, witnesses said.The protesters in cities across Syria, including the capital of Damascus, called for Assad's ouster, with some of them chanting "We are not afraid!" Mazen Darwish, a prominent activist who runs a group called the Syrian Media Center, confirmed at least 10 deaths in Daraa, the heart of the protests. Later, the human rights group Sawasiah said 24 had been killed, including two children. A hospital near Daraa reported as having received 15 bullet-riddled bodies of slain villagers, a medical source told Reuters. The source at the hospital in Tafas, north west of the city, told Reuters 38 more villagers were injured. It was unknown whether it was from the same attack in Daraa. At least 83 corpses, including those of women and children, were resting in Daraa's makeshift morgues. The victims had been stored killed during a four-day army attack, a human rights campaigner said on Friday. "We counted 83 bodies so far, many stored in refrigerator trucks. Most of the bullets went through heads and chests, indicating that snipers most likely had done the shooting," Tamer al-Jahamani, a prominent lawyer in Daraa, told Reuters. The death doll does not include the latest victims from Friday's unrest.
