Reply #56: Syria: A Deraa resident told Al Jazeera by phone that hundreds of troops had arrived in the city:

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They were firing. Witnesses have told me that there have been five deaths so far and houses have become hospitals.

One witness told Reuters he could see bodies lying in a main street near the Omari mosque after eight tanks and two armoured vehicles deployed in the old quarter of the city.

"People are taking cover in homes. I could see two bodies near the mosque and no one was able to go out and drag them away," the witness said.

Snipers were posted on government buildings, and security forces in army fatigues had been shooting at random at houses since the tanks moved in just after dawn prayers.

Video at link shows troops and armoured vehicles purportedly in Deraa:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/apr/25/libya-syria-middle-east-uprising-live#block-2