Syria death toll spirals to 45000

December 27, 2012 01:28

The death toll in Syria's civil war has topped 45,000, a watchdog said today, as peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi looked to Russia for help in his faltering new bid to find a negotiated settlement.

At least another 20 people including eight children were killed in tank shelling of a farming village in the north of the country, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which put the day's nationwide death toll at 118.

The grim statistics added gravity to a UN warning that the humanitarian situation is rapidly deteriorating and predictions that the number of Syrian refugees could double to 1.1 million by next June if the war is not ended.

"In all we have documented the deaths of 45,048 people," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP, adding that more than 1,000 people were killed in the past week alone.

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