Syria (and Beyond) Live Coverage: The Start of a "Decisive Battle" for Aleppo?
Friday, September 28, 2012 at 10:06 | James Miller in EA Live, EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran 2225 GMT: Bahrain. We close our coverage tonight with news 17 year old Ali Hussain Neama has been shot and killed by security forces in Sadad tonight. Details are still emerging.
Said Yousif Almuhafda, Head of Monitoring at the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, tweeted the following picture of Ali:
#BahrainDeath of young boy just confirmed by MOI,ppl saying from pellet shotgun.. twitter.com/SAIDYOUSIF/sta…
— S.YousifAlmuhafda (@SAIDYOUSIF) September 28, 2012
He adds:
Riot police attacking women who went to see the 17 yo boy who was just killed #Bahrain”
— S.YousifAlmuhafda (@SAIDYOUSIF) September 28, 2012
The Ministry of Interior has confirmed the death in a tweet, referring to the incident that killed Ali as a "terrorist attack".
2054 GMT: Syria. According to the Local Coordination Committees, at least 160 people have been killed by the Assad regime so far today:
55 martyrs were reported in Aleppo; including 25 who were field executed in Rashedeen, 48 in Damascus and its Subrubs (including 10 martyrs who were field-executed in Barzeh, and 17 in Qudsaya), 20 in Deir Ezzor, 13 in Idlib, 10 in Daraa; including two people who were martyred in Damascus, 7 in Hama, 4 in Homs, 2 in Raqqa, and 1 in Lattakia.