Syria death toll reaches 7,636 since last March: watchdog

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Syria death toll reaches 7,636 since last March: watchdog

February 22, 2012 10:57 AM

A wounded man is seen in the Sunni Muslim district of Baba Amro in Homs in this February 8, 2012. (REUTERS/Mulham Alnader)

BEIRUT: The death toll in Syria since protests erupted against the regime of President Bashar Assad in March last year has reached 7,636, a human rights group said on Wednesday.

The toll consists of 5,542 civilians, 1,692 soldiers and police, and some 400 rebel troops, the head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdel Rahman, told AFP.

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