More than 60,000 people have been killed in Syria since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's regime erupted in March 2011, a top UN official said.<br /><br />Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said that an exhaustive analysis carried out by data specialists showed that 59,648 people had died through the end of November.<br /><br />Speaking to Al Jazeera, Rupert Colville, spokesman for Pillay, said the death toll could be much higher.<br /><br />"What we have done is take the statistical analysis of seven of the lists of casualties that exist, analyse them all and remove all the double counting," he said.<br /><br />"But the criteria are quite strict. There has to be a set amount of information and there may well be people who have been killed who aren't included as a result of that."<br /><br />He said the 60,000 figure should be treated as an indicative number and not a real number.
