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Syria
tense after deadly clashes
Sunday April 10, 2011 07:45:52 PM,
Agencies
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Damascus: In Syria, days of protests and
violence in the city of Daraa has forced many schools and
government buildings to close.
"Daraa is 80 per cent paralysed today, the children were sent back
home from school and most of the government buildings are not
operational," a local witness told Al Jazeera on Sunday.
The southern city, a flashpoint for anti-government
demonstrations, came to a standstill after Friday's brutal
crackdown on thousands of protesters by Syrian security forces
left at least 27 people dead.
Meanwhile, men who are loyal to Bashar al-Assad, the country's
president, fired at a group of people guarding a mosque in Banias
on Sunday, two witnesses told the Reuters news agency, as ethnic
tension intensified in the mostly Sunni coastal city.
The group, who were armed with sticks, were guarding the Abu Bakr
al-Siddiq mosque at morning prayers when the Assad loyalists,
known as "shabbiha", fired at them with automatic rifles from
speeding cars.
Five people were injured, including a 47-year-old man who was hit
in the chest, the witnesses - a doctor and a university professor
- told Reuters.
Al Jazeera's Rula Amin, reporting from the capital Damascus, said
the situation remained tense in Homs, just a day after "strong
protests".
Ban Ki-Moon, the United Nation's secretary-general, has told Assad
he is "greatly disturbed" by the reports of violence.
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