More than 100 people were shot, stabbed to death by government forces in the Syrian city of Homs, a monitoring group said yesterday, and fierce fighting raged across the country. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said the deaths came when the army on Tuesday swept through farmlands north of Homs city, where it said around 1,000 people had sought refuge from fighting in the central Syria metropolis. “The Syrian regime carried out a new massacre on Tuesday claiming 106 victims, including women and children,” said the Britain-based watchdog, which relies on a network of activists and medics on the ground. The massacre in the central city came the same day twin explosions killed over 80 people at Aleppo's university in the north. Syrian warplanes and troops pursued a countrywide offensive yesterday, activists and state media said, bombing rebel-held areas and clashing with insurgents who have pushed into cities.
