[Updated, 1:39 p.m. ET] The number of people killed Thursday in Syria amid the civil war there has reached 131, including 14 children,
according to the Local Coordination Committee in Syria, a Syrian based opposition activist network.

Fifty-six of those killed were in the Damascus suburbs, according to the network.

[Initial post, 12:21 p.m. ET] One hundred seventeen people were killed across Syria Thursday amid that country's civil war, according to the Local Coordination Committee in Syria, a Syrian based opposition activist network.

Thursday's reported death toll came a day after the United Nations said Syria's overall death toll since March 2011 surpassed an estimated 60,000 people.