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Summary Syrian military stormed city of Hama before dawn Sunday, killing up to 95 people.
Tank shells slammed into the streets, activists and witnesses said.The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had compiled the names of dead from hospitals and residents in Hama, but the figure could not be independently confirmed. The Syria-based Local Coordination Committees said it had the names of four victims, but that there were more bodies that had yet to be identified.Troops entered Hama at dawn today, a resident told a news agency by telephone. We woke up to this news, they are firing from their machine guns randomly and there are many casualties.Hama became one of the hottest centers of the demonstrations. In early June, security forces shot dead 65 people there, and since then it has fallen out of government control, with protesters holding the streets and government forces ringing the city and conducting overnight raids.
