28/05/2012 11:58
108 people killed in Hula
The UN Security Council early today (1am UAE time) condemned the "outrageous" use of heavy weapons by the Syrian government in the massacre at Hula that killed 108 people, but questions remained about who was responsible for many of the killings carried out by small arms at short range.
The 15-member council in a statement to the press "condemned in the strongest possible terms" the massacre, confirmed by United Nations observers, of "dozens of men, women and children and the wounding of hundreds more" in Hula. The attacks "involved a series of government artillery and tank shellings on a residential neighbourhood" in the city, the statement said.