Aid reaches Homs as attacks on rebels continue

Syrian artillery pounded the rebel city of Rastan yesterday, killing seven civilians, monitors said.

The Red Cross delivered aid to refugees from the battered Homs quarter of Baba Amr but remained barred from the district itself.

For a third straight day, relief agencies were denied entry to Baba Amr, where hundreds of people have been killed and even more wounded in an almost month-long blitz.