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Syria denies mass grave unearthed in Deraa

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The Syrian government denied on Tuesday claims that it has been burying anti-government protesters in mass graves, Aljazeera said.

The Syrian government denied on Tuesday claims that it has been burying anti-government protesters in mass graves, Aljazeera said.

Syrian villagers said on Monday they pulled 13 bodies, four of them children, from a meter-deep pit near the southern city of Daraa.

Deraa was the focus of pro-democracy protests against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad until troops backed by tanks moved in last month.

Deraa residents say hundreds of people were killed or went missing in the crackdown.

The Syrian government dismissed reports of a mass grave as "completely untrue" and part of a "campaign of incitement," in comments carried by state TV on Tuesday.

The area has been sealed off.

Syrian human rights group, Sawasiah, says more than 800 people have been killed since the unrest began in mid-March.

MOSCOW, May 17 (RIA Novosti)

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