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Syria: death toll likely as high as 120,000

At least 94,000 people have been killed during Syria's two-year conflict, but the death toll is likely to be as high as 120,000, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said today.

Updated on: May 14, 2013, 19:54:39 IST
Reuters | By , Beirut
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At least 94,000 people have been killed during Syria's two-year conflict, but the death toll is likely to be as high as 120,000, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday.

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The group said that at least 41,000 of those confirmed killed were Alawites, the sect of President Bashar al-Assad.

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