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Syrian Conflict

300 killed in a single day

Up to 700,000could flee by year-end: UNHCR

REUTERS, Beirut/Geneva
More than 300 people were killed in Syria on Wednesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, in one of the bloodiest days in the 18-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.
The British-based organisation, which monitors violence in Syria through a network of activists, said in a report released
yesterday that 55 people were killed in rural areas around Damascus.
They included at least 40 who appeared to have been shot in cold blood in the town of al-Dhiyabia, southeast of the capital.
Also yesterday, the UN refugee agency said the number of refugees fleeing Syria could reach 700,000 by the end of the year,
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almost four times its previous forecast.
About 294,000 refugees fleeing 18 months of conflict in Syria have crossed into four neighbouring countries --Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon and Turkey — or await registration there, it said.
"This is a significant outflow taking place, 100,000 people in August, 60,000 in September and at the moment 2,000 or 3,000 per day or night," Panos Moumtzis, regional refugee coordinator for the UN refugee agency UNHCR, told a news briefing.
About 5,000-6,000 Syrians have reached other parts of north Africa, mainly Egypt, while other refugees are turning up in southern Europe, including Cyprus and Greece, he said.
The previous forecast of 185,000 refugees was surpassed in August.
UN aid agencies and humanitarian partners issued a funding appeal of $487.9 million to help meet the needs of the rapidly growing outflow from Syria.
VIOLENCE CONTINUE World leaders meeting at the United Nations have expressed concern at the continuing violence in Syria but are deadlocked over their response to the conflict, which the Observatory says has claimed 30,000 lives since March 2011.
Other activists have put the death toll in al-Dhiyabia as high as 107, blaming Assad's security forces for what they said was a massacre. Video published by activists showed rows of bloodied corpses wrapped in blankets.
The victims shown on camera appeared to be male, from 20-year-olds to elderly men.