BEIRUT, Lebanon – A human rights group says Syrian security forces have killed eight people in an attack on a Damascus suburb.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says residents of the southern Kanaker suburb tried to stop the advancing troops by throwing stones and closing roads with burning tires.
The group says Wednesday's raid also wounded a number of people who are being treated in mosques. It says the raid occurred after electricity and telephones were cut off in the area.
President Bashar Assad's regime has unleashed a brutal crackdown on the four-month-old uprising. Activists say more than 1600 people have been killed. The government blames the unrest on terrorists and foreign extremists.
