Neighbors desperate as the shelling escalates | Detroit Free Press | freep.com
clip from article: "If they don't die in the shelling, they will die of hunger," activist and resident Omar Shaker said after hours of intense shelling concentrated on the rebel-held neighborhood of Baba Amr. The opposition has extolled that neighborhood as a symbol of its 11-month uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime.
An additional 33 people were killed in northern Syria's mountainous Jabal al-Zawiya region when government forces raided a town in pursuit of regime opponents, activists said.
The Local Coordination Committees, an opposition group, said more than 100 were killed Tuesday, but the report could not immediately be confirmed by others.
Russia, one of Assad's remaining allies, urged the United Nations to send a special envoy to Syria to help coordinate security issues and delivery of humanitarian assistance.
One Homs resident, communicating with the Associated Press by Internet chat, said many people are unable or too scared to go to the hospital for treatment. Some are bleeding to death at home.
"My cousin is a doctor, and he said they've given up on treating serious wounds. The numbers are too many to cope with, especially with so little supplies," said the resident, who has provided reliable information in the past.[read more at link
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