Shelling hits Hama as more United Nation supervision expected in Syria

Heavy shelling hit the Syrian city of Hama on Monday, opposition activists said, days after the U.N. Security Council voted to send as many as 300 observers to monitor a tenuous cease-fire.

At least 60 people were killed Monday in Syria, 37 of them in Hama, according the Local Coordination Committees of Syria, a network of opposition activists. Dozens of people were wounded in the city, which was visited Sunday by international observers, the activists said.

Elsewhere in the city, security forces opened fire to disperse a demonstration, the Local Coordination Committees said.

Explosions also rocked the devastated city of Homs early Monday, shaking the neighborhoods of Baba Amr and Inshaat.

International pressure on Damascus has been mounting. European Union foreign ministers agreed to ban the export of goods and technology that might be used ....... read more>>