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Syria death toll rises to 51, says opposition
Feb 22, 2012, 15:01 GMT
Beirut - At least 51 people, including two Western journalists, were killed Wednesday by government troops across Syria, the opposition Syrian Local Coordination Committee (LCC) reported.
'Most of the deaths occurred in the province of Homs. Others were killed in the provinces of Idlib and Hama,' Omar Idlibi, the LCC spokesman in Beirut, told dpa.
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