Assad forces kill 4 students in campus raid and arrested more than 200.

Assad forces kill 4 students in campus raid and arrested more than 200.(AA). Syria’s Aleppo University on Thursday announced it was suspending classes after pro-government forces killed four students and arrested more than 200 in a campus raid during anti-regime protests. In a message posted on its website, the northern city’s university told students that classes were suspended until final exams on May 13. “Students were barred from entering the campus and were told that the university dorms were shut down until further notice,” Mohammed al-Halabi, an activist on the ground, told AFP via Skype. He said security forces had raided the dormitories Thursday morning and had thrown out students and their belongings. He said some of the rooms were torched. Student activist Thaer al-Ahmed said security forces and pro-regime gunmen fired tear gas and live ammunition to disperse the students at Aleppo University after entering the students’ residences late Wednesday night. The decision to shut down the university came after Syrian troops and armed supporters overnight stormed an anti-regime protest on campus killing four students and arresting more than 200, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Britain-based watchdog also reported that 28 students were wounded, three of them critically. Activists said the raid was carried out in response to daily anti-regime demonstrations at the university in Syria’s second largest city. “Security forces stormed the campus in large numbers at night and opened fire during a large student demonstration calling for the fall of the regime,” Halabi said. As many as seven people have been killed by the fire of Syrian forces across the country on Thursday, Al Arabiya reported citing activists at the Syrian Revolution Commission. Massive protests were reported in several neighborhoods in the capital Damascus, the biggest of which was reported in al-Salheiya region, Al Arabiya reported citing Syrian activists. Random shootings were reported in al-Hamama village in Idlib, activists said, and mortar shells hit Rastan in Homs.Read the full story here.