It is first time that the centre of Damascus, Syria’s third largest, faced a humanitarian crisis.

The situation was out of control after Syria troop shot dead a mourner and wounded four, including a woman who was hit in the head. The firing had opened at a huge Damascus funeral for people killed during a protest against President Bashar al-Assad on Friday.

As per report, the mourner presented at funeral of four demonstrators who killed in an anti-Assad protest that was one of the biggest. Amongst them, two were teenagers and they killed when security forces opened fire in center of Damascus – Mazzeh district.

In few hours, Damascus’s funeral turned into protests, along with gathering of more than 30,000 people in the streets of capital’s Mezze district.
The people were marching Saturday in a funeral procession with slogans calling for an end to the Assad regime while troops fired live rounds and tear gas at them.
During fired, Security forces had killed 14 people in Damascus and other parts of the country on Saturday, including five in the opposition stronghold of Homs.

Blaming the death of demonstrators to Syria govt., Opposition activists said government forces were continuing their two-week rocket and artillery attack on restive central city of Homs.

However the conversion of demonstration in a huge protest came during a visit of Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhai Jun who issued a plea for the bloodshed to end.

Zhai Jun met with President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus and called on all sides in Syria to defuse the 11-month crisis and for planned elections, which have been denounced by the opposition, to go ahead peacefully.

In his statement, Zhai stated, “The position of China is to call on the government, the opposition and the rebels to halt acts of violence immediately. We hope that the referendum on a new constitution as well as the forthcoming parliamentary elections pass off calmly.”

Calling the protest against Syria regime as “an effort of divide”, Assad said, “What Syria is facing is fundamentally an effort to divide it and affect its geopolitical place and historic role in the region.”

As like Russia, China has faced a barrage of criticism for blocking action by the UN Security Council. And it’s voting against a UN General Assembly resolution calling on Mr Assad to step down is its recent one.

But Syrian opposition groups totally made rejection on ending five decades of single-party rule as a new drafted constitution. They also announced to boycott upcoming elections that will have been started from February 26.

Meanwhile the situation in Syria regime is going to be as much critical as out of control. And troops firing raised the death tolls in Syria as it is expected that more than 7,000 people have died throughout Syria since last March.