Confirmed death toll in Syrian conflict nearly 93,000, says UN:
UN human rights office says it has confirmed the deaths of 92,901 people between March 2011 and end of April 2013
The United Nations says almost 93,000 people have been confirmed killed in the Syrian conflict, but the real number is likely to be far higher.
The UN human rights office said it had confirmed the deaths of 92,901 people between March 2011 and the end of April 2013. Navi Pillay, the UN high commissioner for human rights, said more than 5,000 killings had been documented each month since last July.
That included just under 27,000 new killings since the start of December. The last analysis found almost 60,000 documented deaths as of the end of November.
Syria activists say rebels have gained control of a key military base in the central Hama province. The base is on the northern edge of the town of Morek, which straddles the country's strategic north-south highway leading to the province of Aleppo.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the rebels seized the base after intense clashes with regime forces on Thursday. It said the rebels killed six government troops and seized weapons and ammunition. A video posted on Facebook shows flames rising from the burning compound and the bodies of some of the killed fighters.
President Bashar Assad's forces are waging an offensive to drive rebels out of the central provinces of Hama and Homs, and the northern Aleppo province.
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UN human rights office says it has confirmed the deaths of 92,901 people between March 2011 and end of April 2013
The United Nations says almost 93,000 people have been confirmed killed in the Syrian conflict, but the real number is likely to be far higher.
The UN human rights office said it had confirmed the deaths of 92,901 people between March 2011 and the end of April 2013. Navi Pillay, the UN high commissioner for human rights, said more than 5,000 killings had been documented each month since last July.
That included just under 27,000 new killings since the start of December. The last analysis found almost 60,000 documented deaths as of the end of November.
Syria activists say rebels have gained control of a key military base in the central Hama province. The base is on the northern edge of the town of Morek, which straddles the country's strategic north-south highway leading to the province of Aleppo.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the rebels seized the base after intense clashes with regime forces on Thursday. It said the rebels killed six government troops and seized weapons and ammunition. A video posted on Facebook shows flames rising from the burning compound and the bodies of some of the killed fighters.
President Bashar Assad's forces are waging an offensive to drive rebels out of the central provinces of Hama and Homs, and the northern Aleppo province.
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