Weekend death toll 80 in Syria
18 Jun 2012 1:37 AM GMT
Troops pounded besieged districts of the flashpoint city of Homs as 10 people were killed across Syria on Sunday, taking the weekend death toll to nearly 80, a watchdog said.
A civilian was killed in the rebel stronghold of Khalidiyeh, which, like other parts of the central city, was 'being shelled and shot at by regime forces who have been trying to enter these districts for several days,' said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Speaking to AFP via Skype from Homs' Old City neighbourhood, activist Abu Bilal said the regime siege of several parts of the city was 'suffocating'.
'They are shelling us all the time. There's very little food and water, and we're running out of medication.' Abu Bilal reiterated fears expressed by the opposition and rights watchdogs on Saturday that, should regime forces enter the encircled districts, people trapped in them 'will be massacred.'
He added that dozens of civilians in the Old City, in central Homs, were wounded, 'and many of them will die if they don't get treatment as we can't get any of the injured out.'
Amateur video posted on YouTube by anti-regime activists in the surrounded Homs district of Jourat al-Shiah showed widespread destruction, deserted streets and parts of a building shelled and on fire.
'We don't have any milk for the children, nor water,' a woman said.
A civilian was killed in the rebel stronghold of Khalidiyeh, which, like other parts of the central city, was 'being shelled and shot at by regime forces who have been trying to enter these districts for several days,' said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Speaking to AFP via Skype from Homs' Old City neighbourhood, activist Abu Bilal said the regime siege of several parts of the city was 'suffocating'.
'They are shelling us all the time. There's very little food and water, and we're running out of medication.' Abu Bilal reiterated fears expressed by the opposition and rights watchdogs on Saturday that, should regime forces enter the encircled districts, people trapped in them 'will be massacred.'
He added that dozens of civilians in the Old City, in central Homs, were wounded, 'and many of them will die if they don't get treatment as we can't get any of the injured out.'
Amateur video posted on YouTube by anti-regime activists in the surrounded Homs district of Jourat al-Shiah showed widespread destruction, deserted streets and parts of a building shelled and on fire.
'We don't have any milk for the children, nor water,' a woman said.
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