6 February 2012
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The BBC’s Paul Wood reporting from inside Homs: “There’s been pretty constant shelling”
Heavy artillery fire has been rocking Homs, as Syrian troops step up an attack on the restive city.
A BBC correspondent there says attacks resumed early on Monday with almost constant explosions.
Rebels say a clinic is considering targeted in one of the fiercest assaults on the city in the 11-month uprising.
Opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hold been angered by Russia and China’s decision to interdiction a UN resolution criticising Damascus.
The BBC’s Paul Wood, who managed to get into Homs, says shelling resumed there at 06:00 (04:00 GMT).
Some rebels fighters are firing automatic weapons in return, in what our correspondent calls a futile gesture.
He says it is incredible to verify claims that a field clinic run by the rebels is considering targeted by government forces.
The facility is treating dozens of kinsfolk wounded in previous assaults on Homs.
An anti-government campaigner told the BBC the government was also using helicopters and tanks in the assault.
Fifteen kinsfolk killed are said to hold been killed so far on Monday.
Our correspondent says the dead are considering buried at night for fear of snipers taking aim at mourners.
At least 28 civilians were killed by stock forces across Syria on Sunday, principally in Homs, according to the London-based campaign group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
‘Travesty’
Some residents fear Saturday’s interdiction by China and Russia of the UN draft resolution condemning the crackdown will encourage the government to act without restraint.
The Syrian National Council, the biggest opposition group, said Russia and China were “responsible for the escalating acts of killing“, career the interdiction “an laughable step that is tantamount to a licence to kill with impunity”.
The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, called the interdiction a “travesty” and expressed support for the Syrian opposition.
Chinese state-run media hold defended Beijing’s decision, career it a Western push for regime change and citing previous campaigns in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.
Human rights groups and activists say more than 7,000 kinsfolk hold been killed by Syrian stock forces since the uprising began last March.
The UN stopped estimating the death toll in Syria after it passed 5,400 in January, saying it was too difficult to confirm.
President Assad’s government says at least 2,000 members of the stock forces hold been killed fighting “armed gangs and terrorists”.
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