UN call for Syrian ceasefire ignored as 10 civilians killed

More than a dozen people died in clashes across Syria yesterday, opposition activists said, as a UN Security Council call for an immediate end to the fighting fell on deaf ears.

In the worst incident, 10 civilians, including three children and two women, died when their small bus was shot in the northern town of Sermeen as they tried to flee to Turkey, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said.