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Summary Violence across Syria on the first day of Kofi Annans visit left 62 persons dead.
At least 62 persons, mostly soldiers and rebels, were killed in violence across Syria on Saturday, the first of a two-day visit by international peace envoy Kofi Annan, a monitor said.Among them were 21 army deserters, 19 soldiers and 22 civilians, who were killed in fighting in the northwestern province of Idlib, whose capital city was stormed by ground troops on Saturday evening, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.Another seven civilians died in Damascus and Homs.
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