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| Thursday, February
9, 2012, 10:05 AM |
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Syrian armed forces continue the bombardment against the city of Homs. |
Activists
say Syrian armed forces have renewed their deadly, weeklong assault on
Homs in the heaviest bombardment the city has seen since the country's
uprising began in March. |
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Hundreds
of people have been reported killed since last Friday in a steady rain
of rockets, mortars and machine-gun fire.
Activists said that at least 40 tanks and 50 infantry fighting vehicles
accompanied by 1,000 soldiers were transported from the nearby border
with Lebanon and from the coast and deployed in Homs.
Large Sunni neighborhoods that have been the target of the heaviest rocket
and mortar bombardment by Alawite-led forces loyal to Assad remained without
electricity and water and basic supplies were running low, activists in
Homs said.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory
for Human Rights says at least 12 people were killed Thursday morning
but an exact death toll couldn't immediately be determined because of
the chaos in the city.
President Bashar Assad's regime
is trying to crush pockets of dissent in the city of 1 million people.
Many areas have been under the control of army defectors who want to bring
down the regime by force.
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Damaged houses are seen in the Sunni Muslim district of Bab Amro in Homs
in this handout picture received February 8, 2012. |
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