The United Nations is now raising the death toll in Syria to over 60,000 as fighting in the country continues. NBC's Frances Kuo reports.By NBC News wire servicesUpdated at 11:40 a.m. ET: At least 30 civilians were killed Wednesday when Syrian warplanes bombed a gas station in a suburb on the eastern edge of Damascus, opposition campaigners told news agencies, as the United Nations announced that the death toll from the conflict had surpassed 60,000.
"The number of casualties is much higher than we expected and is truly shocking," U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay said, citing an "exhaustive" U.N.-commissioned study into more than a year and a half of fighting in Syria.
Of Wednesday's incident near Damascus, activist Abu Saeed told Reuters: "I counted at least 30 bodies. They were either burnt or dismembered."(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/130102-syria-attack-02-9a.380;380;7;70;0.jpg)Shaam News Network via AP videoThis still image taken from video shows a wounded man being pulled from the site of a purported Syrian government airstrike on a gas station in the eastern Damascus suburb of Mleiha on Wednesday.
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It is so shocking to me as well.Syria is just a sturbbon country