A violence monitoring group on Friday said that more than 40,000 people have been killed in the fighting between rebels and President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, Reuters reports.
The head of Syrian Observatory for Human Rights provided Reuters with a breakdown of the death toll, contending that 40,000 may actually be a low estimate:
Rami Abdelrahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said about half the fatalities were civilians and the other half split about evenly between rebels and government soldiers.
“The figure is likely much higher as the rebels and the government lie about how many of their forces have died to make it look like they are winning,” Abdelrahman told Reuters.
