24 killed in Syrian security operations: Activists
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DAMASCUS: At least 24 people were killed in violence across Syria on Sunday, reports said as the visiting Red Cross chief sought access to those detained in more than five months of anti-regime protests.
As more bloodletting gripped the country, Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi said Syria has agreed to host him for a visit, to help push for a peaceful outcome to the crisis.
But Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov warned that the five-nation BRICS group of emerging powers, who have criticized Western sanctions on Syria, are determined not to allow a Libyanstyle solution in that country.
Activists said cracking down on democracy protesters killed 12 people on Sunday during operations in northwestern and central Syria . The state news agency Sana also gave a toll of 12 dead when an "armed terrorist group" ambushed a bus in Syria .Omar Idlibi, spokesman of the Local Coordination Committees (LCC) which groups anti-regime activists on the ground, said "four martyrs fell in Karnaz near the (central) town of Maharda ."
He also reported eight others people killed in the northwestern Idlib province, including two people in the town of Khan Sheikhwan.
On Friday, SANA reported that gunmen in Khan Sheikhwan had kidnapped a corporal with Syria's internal security services, Wael Ali.
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