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Syria's Deadly Crackdown On Protesters Continues

MICHELE NORRIS, Host:

From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Michele Norris.

MELISSA BLOCK, Host:

NPR's Kelly McEvers has been following the story from Beirut. She sent this report.

KELLY MCEVERS: Here's Wissam Tarif of the Avaaz Human Rights Groups.

WISSAM TARIF: He was leaving the mosque and he was shot in the head. It was kind of execution. They targeted him.

MCEVERS: Tarif says more people were killed in the eastern city of Deir al-Zout, in the suburbs of the capital, Damascus, and in a northern region near the border with Turkey. There, Tarif says, a pregnant woman was also shot by snipers.

TARIF: She wasn't in a protest. She was leaving her home. And she was shot in the upper part of the body, which is chest and neck, and she died instantly.

MCEVERS: So, he says, did her baby. This video from the northern city of Homs was filmed by activists today. It shows men in uniform firing rifles towards protesters who yell "God is great."

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MCEVERS: Kelly McEvers, NPR News, Beirut. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.

Kelly McEvers is a two-time Peabody Award-winning journalist and former host of NPR's flagship newsmagazine, All Things Considered. She spent much of her career as an international correspondent, reporting from Asia, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East. She is the creator and host of the acclaimed Embedded podcast, a documentary show that goes to hard places to make sense of the news. She began her career as a newspaper reporter in Chicago.