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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
At Least 17 Killed, Dozens Injured in E. Aleppo As Terrorists Disperse Protesters with Machine Gun Fire
2016-11-20
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] At least 17 people were killed by heavy gunfire and about a dozen more were rounded up and executed after hundreds of civilians trying to leave eastern Aleppo protested against the terrorist blockade of exit routes, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

Some 500 civilians took part in several protests in the terrorist-occupied eastern part of Aleppo on Thursday, and at least 200 of them were trying to reach the Syrian government-controlled area at the time they were violently dispersed with live fire, Russian Defense Ministry front man Igor Konashenkov said.

"The snuffies dispersed the demonstration, shooting at the protesters from a heavy machine gun and then mined all the approaches to the checkpoint and placed snipers on the roofs of nearby houses," Konashenkov said, as quoted by Sputnik news agency.

"Seventeen people died at the site, including two teenagers of 13 and 15 years of age, over 40 people were maimed," he added.

Upon quelling one of the rallies, snuffies launched a hunt for the presumed organizers of the protests, the ministry front man said.

"Terrorists detained about 10 men, who they held to be ’organizers’ of the riots, and drove them away in an unknown direction. They were rubbed out the same evening," Konashenkov said.

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