Over 220,000 die in Syrian conflict

BEIRUT: The conflict in Syria has left more than 220,000 dead since it began four years ago with an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, a key monitoring group said on Thursday.“We have counted 222,271 deaths since the start of the revolt in March 2011,” the head of the Syrian Observatory

By our correspondents
April 17, 2015
BEIRUT: The conflict in Syria has left more than 220,000 dead since it began four years ago with an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, a key monitoring group said on Thursday.
“We have counted 222,271 deaths since the start of the revolt in March 2011,” the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdel Rahman, told AFP.