Syria’s war toll 60,000, U.N. says
Official: Figure ‘truly shocking’
Posted: January 3, 2013 at 1:48 a.m.
Syrian rebels gather around a fire as they plan patrols in the Saif al-Dawlah neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. The United Nations estimated Wednesday that more than 60,000 people have been killed in Syria's 21-month-old uprising against authoritarian rule, a toll one-third higher than what anti-regime activists had counted. The U.N. human rights chief called the toll "truly shocking." (AP Photo/Andoni Lubaki)
More than 60,000 people have died in Syria’s 22-month-old civil war, the United Nations’ human rights chief Navi Pillay said Wednesday, expressing dismay at the findings of an analysis that far exceeds previous estimates of casualties.
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