'Scores dead' as Syrian tanks storm Hama city - Middle East - Al Jazeera English

'Scores dead' as Syrian tanks storm Hama city - Middle East - Al Jazeera English: "Syrian security forces have launched a major assault on Hama, the country's third-largest city, a day before the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

The National Organisation for Human Rights, a Syrian activist group, said 121 people were killed in Hama and three other centres across the country on Sunday.

The activist group reported 95 deaths in Hama, after tanks and soldiers stormed the city and said that 26 anti-government protesters died in Deir ez-Zor, Harak and Al Bukamal.

The Syrian government, however, claims that armed gangs are terrorising Hama's residents.

Al Jazeera's Rula Amin said that the number of deaths 'are on the rise and the government seems adamant in wanting to crush the protests'."

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