93,000 killed in Syria but UN says real toll much higher

Almost 93,000 people have been confirmed killed in the Syrian conflict, but the real number is likely to be far higher, the UN says.

Its analysis documented 92,901 killings in Syria between Mar 2011 and the end of Apr 2013. But the UN’s top human rights official, Navi Pillay, acknowledged that it was impossible to put an exact figure on the death toll from Syria’s upward spiral of violence.

The last such analysis, in January, had documented nearly 60,000 killings through the end of November. The latest figures add more killings to that period, plus some 27,000 more between December and April.