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Eugene

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Tue May 15, 2012, 04:19 PM May 2012

Syrian attack kills 21; rebels hold U.N. monitors

Source: Reuters

Syrian attack kills 21; rebels hold U.N. monitors

By Mariam Karouny

BEIRUT | Tue May 15, 2012 4:07pm EDT

(Reuters) - At least 21 people were killed on Tuesday in an attack in northern Syria, activists said, and members of a team of U.N. monitors caught in the battle said they were left in rebel hands.

Reuters asked one of the four monitors by phone if they were being held prisoner. He did not reply. Another said: "We are safe with the (rebel) Free Army."

A spokesman for the rebel military council said the rebels were working on a safe exit for them.

"They are now with the Free Army which is protecting them. If they leave, the regime will terminate them because they have witnessed one of its crimes and it does not want them to tell the truth," he told Reuters.

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