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May records lowest monthly civilian toll in Syria war

Fewer civilians died in May than in any other month of Syria's seven-year war, with less than 250 civilians killed across the country, AFP reported Friday (June 1st).

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 244 civilians were killed last month, including 58 children and 33 women.

It was the "lowest monthly death toll for civilians since the start of the Syrian revolution" in 2011, the Observatory said.

War fronts were relatively quiet in May, with the regime focused on ousting the “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria” (ISIS) from a pocket of southern Damascus.

But regime bombardment was still behind the highest proportion of casualties, the Observatory said, with regime shelling and airstrikes killing 77 civilians in May, with 19 killed in air raids conducted by regime ally Russia.

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