At least four people were killed last night in an attack on an ambulance near a mosque in the Syrian city of Deraa, scene of protests in recent days, Syrian officials said. However, the website opposing the Syrian regime "Akhbar Al Sharq 'offers a completely different version of the facts and that" security forces launched a bloody attack against about 1000 protesters who were against the Al Umari during am today.
" According to opposition websites in the police attack killed six people, including a doctor, "he was providing first aid" and dozens wounded. The official news agency SANA, which quoted an unidentified official source, attributed the attack to an armed group and notes that killed a doctor, nurse and driver.
The incident occurred apparently when the ambulance was passing near the Al Umari. In addition, a policeman died in clashes that erupted between security officers who were in the area and the attackers, again according to official sources. For its part, the opposition website said, citing witnesses, said many protesters took refuge in the mosque, security forces fired tear gas inside and locked the doors.
For its part, the sources cited by the official Syrian media claim that the police injured several alleged members of the armed gang and arrested others. The police claim that the attackers used the Al Umari to store weapons and ammunition. State television showed footage of several pistols, submachine guns, hand grenades, ammunition and money allegedly armed group had been kept at the temple.
According to the official channel, this armed group has terrorized the inhabitants of the houses near the mosque has occupied their homes and been fired from there against the people that go to the temple to pray. The official news agency SANA, echoing earlier protests in Deraa, blamed "infiltrators" to mingle in a group of protesters to "create chaos." Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday dismissed the governor of the province of Deraa after the death of at least five demonstrators in protests that erupted last Friday to demand political reform.
In recent days there have been various concentrations at various points in Syria for political reform in this country, which until now had not been infected by the popular rebellions in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Baréin or Yemen. Syria has lived since 1963 under emergency law, which prevents the call for public demonstrations.
France has called on Syria to renounce the use of excessive force against protesters and condemned the death several people last night in an attack on an ambulance. A spokesman for the French Foreign Ministry said it has asked Syria to undertake "a transparent investigation" of the attack and the riots of recent days, and expressed solidarity with the victims and their families.
Also has asked the Syrian authorities to "release all those detained for participating in demonstrations, for their opinions or their actions in defense of human rights." On Tuesday, the European Union also condemned in strongest terms, imprisonment of dissidents in Syria, as well as the violence of the security forces against demonstrators.
It is "unacceptable," said the diplomat of the block, Catherine Ashton said in a statement. The EU urges the government not to use any violence or repression, but to fulfill the demands of the opposition through "an inclusive dialogue and real reforms," he said. This afternoon has been known that the authorities have arrested six women suck last week during a demonstration outside the Syrian Interior Ministry in Damascus, which demanded the release of political prisoners.
The six women were released on bail of 5,000 Syrian pounds ($ 100), according to the lawyer for the protesters, Michael Shamas. Released women are Laila and Ruba Labuani, relatives of political prisoner Kamal Labuani, Siba Hasan, Nisreen Hassan, Wafa Laham and attorney Sirin Juri. After being arrested on the 16th March, began a hunger strike in prison Duma, near Damascus. 
" According to opposition websites in the police attack killed six people, including a doctor, "he was providing first aid" and dozens wounded. The official news agency SANA, which quoted an unidentified official source, attributed the attack to an armed group and notes that killed a doctor, nurse and driver.
The incident occurred apparently when the ambulance was passing near the Al Umari. In addition, a policeman died in clashes that erupted between security officers who were in the area and the attackers, again according to official sources. For its part, the opposition website said, citing witnesses, said many protesters took refuge in the mosque, security forces fired tear gas inside and locked the doors.
For its part, the sources cited by the official Syrian media claim that the police injured several alleged members of the armed gang and arrested others. The police claim that the attackers used the Al Umari to store weapons and ammunition. State television showed footage of several pistols, submachine guns, hand grenades, ammunition and money allegedly armed group had been kept at the temple.
According to the official channel, this armed group has terrorized the inhabitants of the houses near the mosque has occupied their homes and been fired from there against the people that go to the temple to pray. The official news agency SANA, echoing earlier protests in Deraa, blamed "infiltrators" to mingle in a group of protesters to "create chaos." Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday dismissed the governor of the province of Deraa after the death of at least five demonstrators in protests that erupted last Friday to demand political reform.
In recent days there have been various concentrations at various points in Syria for political reform in this country, which until now had not been infected by the popular rebellions in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Baréin or Yemen. Syria has lived since 1963 under emergency law, which prevents the call for public demonstrations.
France has called on Syria to renounce the use of excessive force against protesters and condemned the death several people last night in an attack on an ambulance. A spokesman for the French Foreign Ministry said it has asked Syria to undertake "a transparent investigation" of the attack and the riots of recent days, and expressed solidarity with the victims and their families.
Also has asked the Syrian authorities to "release all those detained for participating in demonstrations, for their opinions or their actions in defense of human rights." On Tuesday, the European Union also condemned in strongest terms, imprisonment of dissidents in Syria, as well as the violence of the security forces against demonstrators.
It is "unacceptable," said the diplomat of the block, Catherine Ashton said in a statement. The EU urges the government not to use any violence or repression, but to fulfill the demands of the opposition through "an inclusive dialogue and real reforms," he said. This afternoon has been known that the authorities have arrested six women suck last week during a demonstration outside the Syrian Interior Ministry in Damascus, which demanded the release of political prisoners.
The six women were released on bail of 5,000 Syrian pounds ($ 100), according to the lawyer for the protesters, Michael Shamas. Released women are Laila and Ruba Labuani, relatives of political prisoner Kamal Labuani, Siba Hasan, Nisreen Hassan, Wafa Laham and attorney Sirin Juri. After being arrested on the 16th March, began a hunger strike in prison Duma, near Damascus.
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