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LLC said demonstrators rallied outside the home of the attorney general of the flashpoint rebellious province of Hama in support of his reported decision to resign.

Mohammed Adnan al-Bakkour said in a contested video posted on YouTube late Wednesday that he has resigned in disgust at hundreds of killings and thousands of arrests by Assad’s regime.

He said he took the decision after hundreds of jailed peaceful demonstrators were killed by the authorities and buried in mass graves, and 10,000 were arrested arbitrarily.

But Syrian officials said he had been kidnapped and announced he was quitting under duress.

The LCC said in a statement that “huge demonstrations” from the Hama province villages of Kfar Nabudah and Karnaz formed outside Bakkour’s home “to support him.”

Another march took off from the northern city of Amuda, with protesters calling for the “fall of the regime” and some carrying signs “urging Russia to stop exporting sales to the regime,” the LCC said.

The marchers staged a sit-in in Amuda’s central square, it added.

Women took to the streets in the southern Syrian town of Jassem, in the Daraa province, where the pro-democracy protests shaking Syria since mid-March first broke out, the LCC said, adding that gunfire was heard.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported gunfire in Nawa, also in Daraa province, and spoke of injuries without elaborating.

“Security forces are blocking worshippers from leaving Al-Hajar Mosque to take part in demonstrations,” the Observatory said.

Protests also broke out in the central protest hub of Homs, the Observatory said.