Activists say over 50 people killed in Syria in 1 day

PanARMENIAN.Net - A wave of violence killed more than 50 people in Syria in one day, many of them Syrian soldiers who came under attack from army defectors, activists said Tuesday, November 15.

The unrest across the country is escalating as President Bashar Assad comes under mounting pressure - not only from the West but from his Arab neighbors, as well.

The UN estimates the regime's military crackdown on dissent has killed 3,500 people in the past eight months. November is shaping up to be the bloodiest month of the uprising, with more than 250 Syrian civilians killed so far, activists say.

The activist coalition called the Local Coordination Committees group identified at least 50 people who were killed on Monday. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented 69 deaths, and said 34 of them are soldiers, The Associated Press reported.