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Two days of clashes and subsequent retaliatory killings between Syrian security forces and supporters of ousted President Bashar al-Assad have left the death toll at more than 1,000, a war monitoring group said on Saturday.
This is the deadliest incident of violence in Syria since the conflict began 14 years ago.
According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 745 civilians have been killed. Among them, 125 members of the government security forces and 148 fighters from armed groups associated with Assad were killed. The Observatory said electricity and water supply were cut off in large areas around the city of Latakia.
The clashes that broke out on Thursday, three months after the rebels took power after ousting Assad, have posed a major challenge to the new government in Damascus.
The government said it was responding to attacks by remnants of Assad's forces and blamed "individual actions" for the widespread violence.
