1. 4,937 people killed in August, 2012 in Syria
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At least 1,600 people were killed in Syria last week, making it the deadliest week yet in the civil war, a UNICEF spokesman said Sunday (09th, September 2012)
Nearly 5,000 people died in August, according to the Center of Documentation of Violation in Syria, which put the toll for the month at 4,937.
And there appeared to be no letup in the violence on Sunday (02th, September), with opposition sources saying at least 144 people were killed across the country.
The Local Coordination Committees of Syria, an opposition group, said the toll includes a "massacre" of 35 people in the village of Al Fan in Hama province.
Separately, a bombing near a government security building in the capital Damascus left at least four people wounded, state television said, calling the incident "terrorism."
The state news agency SANA said there had been a clash between government forces and an "armed terrorist group" in the area.
