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Bombardment of Damascus suburbs kills 12-activists

AMMAN, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces killed at least 12 people on Saturday and injured 30 in a bombardment of suburbs of Damascus that have fallen under rebel control, activists said.

About half of those killed were civilians. The rest were army defectors loosely grouped under the Free Syrian Army, they said.

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