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clip from article: Opposition groups put the death toll at between 217 and at least 260; if confirmed, this would mark the deadliest incident in a 10-month uprising against the regime of defiant President Bashar al-Assad.
"Assad forces randomly bombed residential areas in Homs, including Khaldiyeh and Qusur, which resulted in at least 260 civilians killed and hundreds of wounded, including men, women, and children," the Syrian National Council said.
The "Assad regime committed one of the most horrific massacres since the beginning of the uprising in Syria," it said in a statement.
Assad's forces also "bombed" the flashpoint northern town of Jisr al-Shughur, near the border with Turkey, as well as suburbs of Damascus, it said.
Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya television channels showed dozens of bodies and scenes of chaos as tweets claiming to be from residents said Homs "is bleeding" under the bombardment, one counting "366 explosions tonight so far."
"It's a real massacre," Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP, calling for the "immediate intervention" of the Arab League to end the killing. [read more at link]
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