NEW SYRIAN MASSACRES; Rebels claim ASSAD shellings killed as many as 40, including 20 CHILDREN

	NEW SYRIAN MASSACRES; Rebels claim ASSAD shellings killed as many as 40, including 20 CHILDREN A video has appeared online, allegedly showing the aftermath of a shelling in Raqqa, a northern Syrian province. Activists claim that the graphic footage shows the bodies of the 20 victims of the attack, including eight children. Media report that the amateur video was provided by the UK-based Syrian Observatory of Human rights. The footage shows rows of the blood-stained bodies laid out on blankets, with the sounds of crying in the background. The description to the video posted on YouTube of Rassd News Network (RNN), an alternative Cairo-based media, says the bodies belong to the "martyrs" killed in village of al-Qahtania, in northern Raqqa Province. The activists claimed that the deaths resulted from the shelling of the local farms by regime forces, adding that among the 20 killed there were eight children and three women. The video could not be independently verified and it remains unclear when the violence took place. It has appeared shortly after the activists' reports that a strike by Syrian forces claimed lives of over 180 people in the town of Halfaya. An amateur video released on YouTube on December 23 showed scores of dead or wounded people in the rubble and men carrying victims out of a bombed one-story block. The state TV blamed the attack on the rebels, accusing them of filming the aftermath to "frame the army." Those responsible have not yet been identified. Opposition activists tend to blame government forces for what they call deadly violence against <b>...</b>	From: WorldConflictReport Views: 1 0 ratings
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