Sunday, August 26, 2012 at 10:51 |Syria. The Local Coordination Committees report 440 people killed by security forces on Saturday, with 310 in Damascus and nearby areas such as Darayya, 40 in Aleppo Province, and 28 in Deir Ez Zor Province.
Video showed the dead piled up wall-to-wall in a mosque complex in Darayya after a regime offensive. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claimed at least 320 bodies have been found. Activists said many showed evidence of having been shot by snipers, with others killed at close range.
State television said Darayya, which has about 200,000 resident, was being "purified of terrorist remnants".
