(Reuters) Khaled Yacoub Oweis - Syrian army deserters killed seven soldiers in an attack on an armored convoy at a roadblock near the northwestern town of Maarat al-Numaan on Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. In addition, in Talbiseh near the city of Homs, residents said Syrian tanks fired machineguns and anti-aircraft guns at neighborhoods where deserters had taken refuge. Eight people were killed in Homs on Monday when troops and militiamen fired at majority Sunni Muslim districts that have been a bastion of protests and, lately, a refuge for military defectors leading armed resistance, residents said.
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