16 killed at Syrian funeral procession
Borzou Daragahi and Roula Hajjar reporting on an unfolding situation for the Los Angeles Times:
Syrian security forces allegedly killed at least 16 people in Syria’s third-largest city Tuesday amid allegations that the government of President Bashar Assad was attempting to bolster its widely challenged rule by intensifying the country’s sectarian tensions.
The shootings took place at a funeral procession for victims of the ongoing violence in the city of Homs, 80 miles north of Damascus. Chilling amateur-video footage posted to the Internet by activists showed panicked residents fleeing amid the roar of automatic weapons fire.
Coverage has died down quite a bit on the television machine, but there’s still a ton of unrest in the region from the Arab Spring.