Thousands of Syrians, in cars and on foot, have congregated at a main square in the city chanting for freedom, according to Reuters.
The Syrian president has fled Damascus on a plane for an unknown destination. That's according to two senior Syrian army officers speaking to the Reuters news agency and Rami Abdurrahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, speaking to AP. Syria's army command has now notified officers that President Bashar al Assad's rule has ended, a Syrian officer who was informed of the move told Reuters.
Read more: Who are the Syrian rebels? Gunfire has been reported in the centre of Damascus, two residents said to Reuters on Sunday, although it was not immediately clear what the source of the shooting was. Protesters on Saturday brought down a statue of the president's late father in a main square in a suburb a few miles from the centre of the capital.
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