Syria (and Beyond) Live Coverage: Gathering Fight In and Around Aleppo
Tuesday, July 31, 2012 at 15:05Uncollected rubbish piles up in Aleppo
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Syria Snapshot: Armed Groups Complicate the Fight in the Northwest
Syria Snapshot: The "Jihadists" in the Fight in the Northeast
Monday's Syria (and Beyond) Live Coverage: Is Aleppo "A Nail in Assad's Coffin"?
1845 GMT: Sudan. Six people were killedtoday at a protest in Nyala in South Darfur, according to a Government source . The specifics of the killings are still unconfirmed, but witnesses have reported that police used batons and tear gas against protesters who were chanting "No, no to high prices" and "The people want to change the regime". AFP reports, citing an eyewitness, that protesters "threw stones at government buildings and burned tyres in the street":
Four bleeding protesters and three security officers were taken away for medical treatment from the demonstration, the witness said.
Nobody was allowed inside the city's hospital where a crowd had gathered outside, he added.