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Daraa is the heart of a six-week-old uprising against the government and has been under siege since Monday when the government first sent in tanks to crush the daily demonstrations.
On Saturday, Syrian army troops backed by tanks and three helicopters took a prominent mosque that had been controlled by residents in a besieged southern city killing four people.
The Omari mosque, in Daraa's Roman-era old town, had been under the control of the residents.
The operation in the town of Daraa came a day after President Bashar Assad unleashed deadly force to crush a months-old revolt, killing at least 65 people, mostly in the border town.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 65 people were killed Friday; with 36 deaths in the Daraa province, 27 in the central Homs region, one in Latakia and another in the Damascus countryside. Total civilian deaths since the uprising began has reached 535.
The Geneva-based Human Rights Council said it would ask the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to send a mission to investigate "all alleged violations of international human rights law and to establish the facts and circumstances of such violations and of the crimes perpetrated."
U.N. officials said the killings may include crimes against humanity.
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