Syria, Bahrain (and Beyond) LiveBlog: Newsflash --- "The Killings Continue"
Tuesday, January 3, 2012 at 15:212135 GMT: Zainab Alkhawaja provides details of this latest woman killed in Bahrain. According to her Twitter stream, the woman is named Fakhriya Jassim, 55 years old. She inhaled teargas in the town of Isa on New Year's Eve. According to Zainab:
Fakhriya's son says a day before she died his mother kept saying "this time the tear gas is different" she could barely talk. The night be4 being exposed to the teargas Fakhriya was fine, she went out shopping
She was the mother of 5 children, and had 10 grandchildren, according to alKhawaja.
We're still hearing rumors of more tear gas in Bahrain tonight.
2127 GMT: We've been tracking reports of teargas in Bahrain for the last hour or so, but not activists are reporting that a woman has died from teargas suffocation tonight. Said Yousif Almuhafda reports:
#Bahrain picture of fakhrya jassim alsakean who died today after sofecatung from tear gas .im with her family now
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2050 GMT: This video was reportedly taken earlier today in Hama. Citizens talk to the Arab League observers, and one yells out, "They've massacred us."