Syria uprising claimed 384 children’s lives - UNICEF

PanARMENIAN.Net - At least 384 children have been killed during 10 months of violence in Syria and almost the same number detained, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has said.

"As of January 7, 384 children have been killed, most are boys," Rima Salah, acting UNICEF deputy executive director, told a press briefing in Geneva. She said about 380 children have been detained, "some less than 14 years old."

The figure was revealed as the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said violence claimed at least 35 lives in Syria on Friday, January 27 including the first fatalities in the commercial city of Aleppo and a car bomb in the northwest.

The figure was reported as activists and residents said security forces killed 37 people in Syria on Friday, as people in Homs mourned 14 members of a family they said were slain by militiamen in one of the worst sectarian attacks in a revolt against President Bashar al-Assad.

The UN Security Council was to meet later in the day to discuss Syria before a possible vote next week on a new Western-Arab draft resolution aimed at halting 10 months of bloodshed, The Telegraph reported.