Reuters. A large crowd was seen dispersing after gunfire was heard in Homs, Syria, from eyewitness footage seen online on Wednesday (December 25).
Reuters was able to confirm the location from nearby buildings, billboards, roundabout, trees and road layout that matched satellite imagery. The date could not be verified independently.
Reuters cannot verify who is firing gunshots in this video.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said that protests in Homs and other Syrian cities took place on Dec. 25 after an undated video was circulated on social networks showing a fire inside an Alawite shrine in the city of Aleppo, with armed men walking around inside and posing near human bodies.
Syrian police imposed an overnight curfew in the city on Wednesday (December 25), according to state media reports, after unrest due to demonstrations allegedly led by members of the minority Alawite and Shi’ite Muslim religious communities.
Reuters could not immediately confirm the demands of the demonstrators nor the degree of disturbance that took place.
