World: United Nations: Nine months in, Syria death toll reaches new peak
- 5,000+ number of people the UN estimates have been killed in Syria since the current crisis started
- 300 number of children that were among the dead, according to UN human rights commissioner Navi Pillay source
- » An accelerating rate: In the first five months of the conflict — between March and August — roughly 2,000 people died fighting the Assad regime. In the four months since, more than 3,000 more have died. Another 18 people died today, as a general strike continued in the country.