Syria: at least 24 dead as army attacks Hama – Telegraph
Syria: at least 24 dead as army attacks Hama – Telegraph.
Syrian tanks stormed the city of Hama at dawn on Sunday, killing at least 24 civilians, residents said, after besieging it for nearly a month to crush some of the biggest demonstrations against President Bashar al-Assad’s rule.
A doctor, who did not want to be further identified for fear of arrest, told Reuters that the city’s Badr, al-Horani and Hikmeh hospitals had received 19, three and two dead bodies respectively.
There were scores of wounded people and a shortage of blood for transfusions, he said by telephone from the city, which has a population of around 700,000.
“Tanks are attacking from four directions. They are firing their heavy machineguns randomly and overrunning makeshift road blocks erected by the inhabitants,” the doctor said, the sound of machinegun fire crackling in the background.
“The casualties are higher. There are bodies uncollected in the streets,” said another resident, adding that army snipers had climbed onto the roofs of the state-owned electricity company and the main prison.
Tank shells were falling at the rate of four a minute in and around northern Hama, residents said, and electricity and water supplies to the main neighbourhoods had been cut – a tactic used regularly by the military when storming towns to crush protests
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