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Ghastly images from shattered Syrian city

2 journalists among dozens killed in Homs

By Rod Nordland

 |  New York Times  

  February 23, 2012

Syrian security forces shelled the central city of Homs yesterday, the 19th day of a bombardment that activists say has claimed the lives of hundreds of trapped civilians in one of the deadliest campaigns in nearly a year of violent repression by the government of President Bashar Assad. Among the more than 80 people that activist groups reported killed by rockets and bombs through the day, two were Western journalists

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