Syria forces 'fire on Tamo funeral, one dead'

NICOSIA: Syrian security forces opened fire at the funeral of assassinated Kurdish opposition leader Meshaal Tamo on Saturday, killing one person and wounding several others, activists said.

The shooting occurred as 50,000 people rallied against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, the Local Coordination Committees, which organizes the protests on the ground, told AFP in Nicosia.

Tamo founded the liberal Kurdish Future Party, which considers the Kurds to be an integral part of Syria. He was a member of the newly formed opposition Syrian National Council and had been released recently after spending three and a half years in prison.

Tamo's assassination sparked indignation at home and abroad. A violent crackdown on anti-regime protests that broke out in March has killed more than 2,900 people, according to the United Nations.