RIYADH: Angry demonstrators sacked the Saudi embassy in Damascus on Saturday after the Arab League suspended Syria over its failure to honour a deal to end a bloody crackdown on anti-regime protesters, Saudi state news agency SPA reported.
"In the evening, numerous demonstrators entered the chancery, breaking window and sacking the inside," SPA said in a dispatch from Damascus.
Earlier, hundreds of people demonstrated in front of the building and showered in with rocks.
Separately, demonstrators protested outside the Qatari embassy in Damascus and in other cities over the Arab League decision.
Several hundred people gathered outside the embassy, waving Syrian flags and brandishing photos of President Bashar al-Assad, chanting slogans in support of him, an AFP photographer witnessed.
Some of them forced open the gate and made their way to the top of the building, where they removed the Qatari flag and put up a Syrian one, as embassy security personnel fired tear gas.
Arab Leagues foreign ministers voted on Saturday to suspend Syria over its failure to comply with an agreement to the crackdown, which the United Nations says has cost more than 3,500 lives.
Qatari Foreign Minister Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani presided over the meeting and announced its decision.
On October 30, he had pressed Assad to adopt concrete measures to put an end to the violence.
Demonstrations also took place on Saturday in the coastal city of Tartus, as well as in Aleppo and Raqqa, state news agency SANA said, without elaborating.
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