Opposition group raises Syria death toll to 50
A main opposition group says the death toll in Syria has risen to 50, including 30 in the battered city of Homs.
The activist group Local Coordination Committees gave the figures, but they could not immediately be confirmed by others.
The report comes as the Red Cross calls for a daily two-hour cease-fire nationwide so that emergency aid can reach beleaguered parts of the country.
Government troops heavily shelled rebellious districts in the resistance stronghold of Homs amid fears of a new round of bloody urban combat in a country careening toward all-out civil war.
The U.N. estimates that at least 5,400 people, most of them civilians, have been killed in the 11-month uprising against Syria's President Bashar Assad.
AP
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