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Gunfire on the streets of Aleppo.

Amateur video out of Syria, which could not be independently verified by Reuters, shows people running for cover at a demonstration.

Activists say at least 10 people were killed when security forces opened fire on demonstrators.

Aleppo, a conservative Sunni Muslim city of 3 million people, has been slowly joining the protest movement against President Bashar al-Assad. The city's merchants have been staging intermittent strikes to protest shelling and aerial bombardments on towns and villages surrounding Aleppo.

More footage shows blood stained bodies on a street - purportedly regime supporters.

Syrian state media reported the bodies of at least 25 men were found in Aleppo province who had been massacred by, quote, "antigovernment terrorists."

Deborah Lutterbeck, Reuters

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