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Summary Four people were killed ahead of a new wave of anti-regime rallies in Syria on Friday.
Saboteurs blew up an oil pipeline near the restive Syrian city of Homs while four people were killed ahead of a new wave of anti-regime rallies, a report and rights activists said.The blast rocked a farming area near Homs at dawn, leaving a crater 15 metres (50 feet) in diameter and oil gushing from the broken pipeline, the report said.A subversive group targeted an oil pipeline near Homs at dawn with an improvised explosive device. Two people were killed in the village of Zebdani, some 60 kilometres (40 miles) northwest of Damascus, as security forces turned the screws in a clampdown on the pro-democracy protest movement, activists said.Those deaths came after Rami Abdel Rahman of the London-based Obseratory reported that security forces shot dead two civilians in the eastern city of Deir Ezzor on Thursday night.The province of Deir Ezzor was the scene of the only other pipeline attack to have occurred in Syria since the unprecedented protests against President Bashar al-Assads regime erupted in mid-March.
