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Syrian forces open fire on protest in Damascus

By Khaled Yacoub Oweis, Amman newsroom | Reuters – Sat, Feb 18, 2012

AMMAN, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Syrian forces opened fire

with live ammuntion to break up a protest against President

Bashar al-Assad in the capital Damascus on Saturday, wounding at

least four people, witnesses said.

The shooting broke out at the funeral of three youths killed

in earlier protests against Assad on Friday.

(Reporting by Khaled Yacoub Oweis, Amman newsroom; Editing by

Angus MacSwan; )

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