100 killed in new massacre – watchdog

More than 100 civilians have been killed in a new massacre in Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The deaths came when the army on January 15 swept through farmlands north of Homs city, where it said around 1,000 people had sought refuge from fighting in the central Syria metropolis. Witnesses said several members of the same family were among those killed, some in fires that raged through their homes and others stabbed or hacked to death. Among the dead were 32 members of the same clan. Homs, dubbed “the capital of the revolution” by Syria’s opposition, is the most strategic city in the country’s largest province, lying on key trade routes near the borders with Lebanon and Iraq, and with its southwestern areas not far from Damascus.

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