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Aid agencies ready to enter Syria's Homs
Aid agencies scrambled to get relief convoys into the Syrian city of Homs on Friday after regime forces overran its Baba Amr neighbourhood ending a nearly four-week pounding.
More than 200,000 people are said to be trapped in Homs where one doctor is tending to the casualties in a makeshift clinic
More than 20,000 civilians are believed to have been trapped in the district through the prolonged bombardment with a lone doctor reported to be tending to the scores of casualties in a single makeshift clinic.
As rebel fighters pulled out on Thursday in the face of the regime's overwhelmingly superior firepower, the opposition Syrian National Council (SNC) warned of "barbaric" reprisals against the neighbourhood's residents.
The UN Security Council called on Syria to allow "immediate" humanitarian access to protest cities in a statement backed by Russia and China, who had vetoed two resolutions on the conflict last October and again in February.
The International Committee of the Red Cross and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent were preparing to send in a relief convoy to the battered Homs neighbourhood, an ICRC spokesman said.
The rebels said they had pulled out "tactically" from Baba Amr on Thursday, the second day of an all-out ground assault by the feared Fourth Armoured Division led by President Bashar al-Assad's younger brother Maher.
The storming of the rebel bastion began early Wednesday, following 27 straight days of relentless shelling which has made the neighbourhood an icon of the more than 11-month uprising against Assad's regime.
