A human rights activist has claimed that at least 95 people have been killed and several others injured by government forces in the central city of Hama in Syria.
"The army and security forces entered Hama this morning and opened fire on civilians," Rami Abdel Rahman of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AFP on Sunday.
Earlier on Sunday, medics at a hospital in Hama announced that they had received 24 bodies.
Activists further claim that a number of people have also been killed in several other cities.
Meanwhile, according to the Syrian state news agency (SANA), at least two law-enforcement officers were killed on Sunday by armed men in Hama.
They have further reported that scores of gunmen have been seen on rooftops shooting at people.
Additionally, the armed gangs have torched several police stations in Hama and have set up roadblocks, barricades and set tires ablaze at the entrance of the city.
Meanwhile, further reports from SANA say that armed gangs in the northeastern city of Deir Ezzor have set up roadblocks and attacked law-enforcement forces and police headquarters.
They have also stolen weapons and ammunitions from the police stations.
Damascus says it has sent the troops to the region to hunt down armed gangs.
Syria has been experiencing unrest over the past months, with demonstrations held both against and in support of the country's President Bashar al-Assad.
The opposition accuses security forces of being behind the deaths of those killed during unrest. But, the government blames armed gangs for the deadly violence, stressing that the unrest is being orchestrated from abroad.
Assad has vowed to bring those behind the killings to justice.
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