ICRC fails to evacuate wounded journalists from Homs
- Published: 26/02/2012 at 07:33 AM
- Online news: World
The Red Cross Saturday failed to agree a deal to evacuate wounded Syrians and Western journalists from battered Homs city as regime forces killed dozens more civilians on the eve of a constitutional referendum.
An image grab taken off the official Syrian TV shows Red Crescent ambulances in the besieged Syrian city of Homs on February 24. The Red Cross Saturday failed to agree a deal to evacuate wounded Syrians and Western journalists from battered Homs city as regime forces killed more civilians on the eve of a constitutional referendum.
President Bashar al-Assad's forces resumed shelling the Baba Amr district of Homs after an apparent pause to allow in relief teams, more than three weeks into a deadly assault on rebels in Syria's third largest city.
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- Writer: AFP News agency
- Position: Agence France-Presse
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