UN rights chief slams 'paralysis' on Syria as deaths top 191,000

More than 191,000 people have died in Syria, United Nations rights chief Navi Pillay said Friday, hitting out at “international paralysis” on the nearly three-and-a-half year conflict.

Between March 2011 and April this year, 191,369 people were killed in war-ravaged Syria — more than double the last toll provided a year ago of 93,000 dead, Pillay said in a statement, warning that the new number is likely an underestimate.