AMMAN, May 27 (Reuters) - Syrian security forces shot dead four protesters on Friday when they fired to disperse demonstrations against President Bashar al-Assad's rule in two towns near Damascus, rights campaigners said.
Three protesters were killed in the Qatana suburb, east of the capital Damascus, and one in the town of Zabadani, near the border with Lebanon, they added.
Reports of events in Syria are hard to verify independently because Assad's government barred most foreign media from the country not long after the start of the unrest, almost three months ago. (Reporting by Khaled Yacoub Oweis; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
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