6-Feb-2012 - At least 200 reported killed in Syrian city of Homs

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The Security Council vote, which comes after months of swelling international outrage over the crackdown, is expected Saturday. Military forces began to fire shells and rockets on the neighborhood of Khaldiyeh, a hotbed of protest, in the late evening, said activist Omar Shakir, speaking by telephone from the city. He said he heard hundreds of missiles strike the area.The assault then spread to the Baba Amr and Bab al-Sebaa neighborhoods, with buildings collapsing on top of wailing residents. He estimated that at least 220 people were dead and more than 700 injured.It was not possible, he said, to take the injured to hospitals because roads were blocked by security forces. Armed pro-government gangs had taken injured and dead people from the al-Amal buy NFL Jerseys hospital near Khaldiyeh, apparently to remove evidence of the offensive, he said.People were being treated in makeshift field hospitals, he said, but he feared that many with head and chest injuries would die.“Assad has lost control of this city and became mad, he became crazy to do these crimes,” he exclaimed.Rami Abdulrahman, head of the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said he had tallied the deaths in the city at 217 after speaking with residents. He added that Homs had been rocked by fighting between the Free Syrian Army opposition group and government forces before the assault began in the evening.“From the 19 of March till now, this is the bloodiest day in Syria,” he declared, referring to the start of the uprising against the government of President Bashar al-Assad.A government spokesperson declined to comment Saturday on the events NFL jersey supply of the previous night. The Syrian Arab News Agency, a state media outlet, said that footage of bodies said by the opposition to have been killed in Friday’s bombardment were in fact “the corpses of the innocent citizens kidnapped, tortured and slaughtered by the armed terrorist groups.”The agency cited a resident of Homs who said that she recognized the corpses of two of her relatives among those shown in videos, who had been kidnapped more than two months ago. If those killed had been hit by mortars, the agency article said, “their bodies would have been turned into tiny pieces.”The attacks in Homs and other places across Syria, an anonymous source reportedly said to the agency, had been fabricated by the opposition ahead of a crucial U.N. vote on a resolution condemning Syria.It was not possible to independently confirm the casualty estimates or details of the attack on Homs, which is about 100 miles NFL jerseys cheap north of Damascus.

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