Sixty-eight civilians were killed in Syria on Monday 4/11/2013, among them eleven women and eleven children.
The largest number killed were in Damascus and its suburbs, in which 28 were killed, among them seven that died due to shelling on Douma, three that died under torture, and three that were killed by sniper fire.
In Homs, 15 were killed, among them four that died due to shelling on Qal’at al-Husn and two that were killed in an ambush by regime forces as they cut firewood from the forest.
Ten were killed in Aleppo, among them four from the village of Tayara that died due to shelling which targeted the city.
And in Daraa, three died during the shelling on the village of Saida, in rural Daraa.
And among those who were killed were two from al-Houla in Homs that died in an ambush by regime forces as they cut firewood from the forest, a civilian from Talbiseh (Homs) that died in Aleppo when a regime checkpoint in the city refused to allow him to be taken to hospital, a man from Kafr Hamra (Aleppo) who died due to lack of medication after he contracted tuberculosis in Aleppo Central Prison, a man from Hama who died as the National Hospital refused to treat him, and a defected soldier from Jub al-Jalbi who perished in clashes with regime forces.
Seven were killed by regime sniper fire: the first from Yalda (rural Damascus) who was killed by sniper fire in al-Buwaida (rural Damascus), the second- in his forties- from Douma was killed by sniper fire on 27-10-2013, the third a woman from Saqba (rural Damascus) that was killed by sniper fire in Mukhayam al-Wafideen (rural Damascus), the fourth from Jurat al-Sheikh in Homs, the fifth a woman from al-Wa’ar (Homs), the sixth was a man in his thirties from Aleppo who was killed by the sniper at the Karraj al-Hajz crossing, and the seventh was a man from Deir Azzour who was killed by sniper fire in Harasta (rural Damascus).
Three were killed under torture: the first from al-Humaira (rural Damascus), the second was a civilian in his forties from Madaya (rural Damascus), and the third from Qaara (rural Damascus) who died under torture in a regime prison after he was arrested in the city of Damascus.
List of provinces according to numbers killed:
Damascus and its suburbs: 28 including 2 children, 5 women, and three that died under torture
Homs: 15 including 4 women
Aleppo: 10 including a woman and a child
Daraa: 3 including 2 children
Idlib: 3
Ar-Raqqah; 3 including a child
Deir Azzour: 2 including a child
Hama: 2 including a woman
Al-Suwaida: 1
Other nationalities: 1 Saudi
Total: 68 Killed
(Names can be found in the Arabic Section)
Syrian Human Rights Committee
4/11/2013