ccording to AP, it reported that activists stated, Syria">Syria’s violence caused at least 25 people on Wednesday, including eight soldiers who were gunned down by army defectors in a retaliatory ambush after government troops destroyed a civilian car. It was the second day in a row in which an attack by President Bashar Assad's forces on civilians appears to have brought a quick and deadly act of revenge by anti-regime fighters. The ambush was the latest sign that the once-peaceful protest movement is growing into an insurgency. UN has called for world powers to act "in the name of humanity" against Syria">Syria's crackdown on dissent, as innocent civilians are reportedly shot dead. UN chief Ban Ki-moon has urged world powers to act as a US official likened the Damascus regime to a "dead man walking". China, along with Russia two veto-wielding countries on the UN Security Council has been supportive of Damascus. Last month the two countries vetoed a Western-backed U.N. Security Council resolution condemning the bloodshed in Syria">Syria. “Israeli officials said that we are welcoming the prospect that Syria">Syria’s embattled president, Bashar al-Assad, will be overthrown, an event Defense Minister Ehud Barak says could be weeks away,” quoted on Washington Post.
The vehicle "exploded in a ball of fire," said Rami Abdul-Rahman, director of the British-based Syria">Syria
n Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of activists on the ground inside the country.
He stated for a while, gunmen ambushed a convoy of four military jeeps passing through the nearby village of al-Asharna on the northern outskirts of the city of Hama, spraying it with bullets. The gunmen are believed to be military defectors seeking revenge for the dawn attack targeting the car, he said.
"The area is a stronghold of dissent where anti-regime protests are routinely held and where there are a number of army defectors," he said.
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