At least 90 people, including many
children, have been killed in Syria's restive Homs province, opposition
activists say, calling it a "massacre".
They said scores were wounded in the violence in Houla, as government forces
shelled and attacked the town.
Shocking footage has emerged of the bodies of children killed as part of one
the bloodiest attacks in one area since a nominal truce began in April.
The UN said its international monitors had visited the area.
France's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius condemned the assault, and said he
was making immediate arrangements for a Paris meeting of the Friends of Syria
group, which includes Western and Arab nations, but not Russia or China, who
have blocked previous attempts to introduce UN sanctions.
Fighting in Syria has continued despite the deployment of some 250 UN
observers monitoring a cease-fire brokered by UN envoy Kofi Annan - a ceasefire
which the BBC's Jim Muir in neighbouring Lebanon says is now "pretty fictional"...
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