BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian troops today heavily shelled a rebel-held neighborhood in the flashpoint central city of Homs as the military appeared to be readying to storm the area, activists said.
Also, U.N. observers entered an area where a massacre was reported this week, an activist said today. The monitors were stopped and fired upon Thursday.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees had no immediate word on casualties from the shelling of the Khaldiyeh neighborhood in Homs. Amateur videos posted online showed a small white plane, apparently a drone, flying over Homs.
“Khaldiyeh is being subjected to five to 10 shells a minute in the worst shelling since the revolution began,” the Observatory said in a statement today.
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