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Syria Qubair: Bloody traces of massacre seen in village

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Syria Qubair: Bloody traces of massacre seen in village Ban Ki-moon: "How many more times have we to condemn them?" Syria Crisis Counting the victims Can Syria avoid civil war? Slow-motion tragedy Who are the shabiha? Source : BBC The smell of burnt flesh and evidence of bloodshed have greeted a BBC correspondent entering the village of Qubair in Syria, scene of a massacre. Our correspondent, travelling with UN monitors, found buildings gutted and burnt, but no sign of people in the tiny village near the city of Hama. Violence continues across Syria, with reports that the central city of Homs came under heavy shelling. Elsewhere, state TV reported two deadly car bomb attacks. Condemning the Qubair massacre earlier, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned of an imminent danger of civil war an