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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25055956
Syria Conflict: Children "Targeted by Snipers"
(BBC News) Lyse Doucet - More than 11,000 children have died in Syria's civil war in nearly three years, including hundreds targeted by snipers. Summary executions and torture have also been used against children, the London-based Oxford Research Group says. Of the victims aged 17 and under, 389 were killed by sniper fire. 764 were summarily executed, and more than 100 - including infants - were tortured, the report says.