The Britannia-based group said all but one of them died in Baba Amr, a rebel stronghold in the city which armed forces have targeted for more than a week, killing at least 500 people, according to activists.
It also reported fierce festivities on the northern edge of nearby Rastan, where a woman was killed when a rocket smashed into her home. Elsewhere, snipers rubbed out a child in Daraa, cradle of the 11-month uprising against
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad's
Lord of the Baath...
regime.
The Observatory added that another 30 tanks and armored personnel carriers were on the way to Homs.
State television aired live footage on Sunday of an official funeral for the 28 people authorities say were killed in twin car booms that destroyed the northern city of Aleppo
...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins...
on Friday.
The authorities blamed "terrorists" for the attacks, but the rebel Free Syrian Army accused the regime of launching them "to steer attention away from what it is doing in Homs, Zabadani and elsewhere."
A U.S. media report citing unnamed American officials said al-Qaeda's Iraqi branch was likely to have carried out the Aleppo bombings, along with attacks in Damascus
...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world...
in December and January.
The bombings appeared to verify Assad's charges of al-Qaeda involvement in the uprising against his 11-year rule, said the McClatchy Newspapers chain.
Iraq's deputy interior minister said jihadists were moving from Iraq to Syria, as were weapons for Assad's opponents.
"We have intelligence information that a number of Iraqi jihadists went to Syria," Adnan al-Assadi told Agence La Belle France Presse, adding that "weapons smuggling is still ongoing."
Forty-five people were killed across Syria on Saturday, most of them civilians, the Britannia-based Observatory said.
Security forces also advanced into Zabadani, it said, adding that three non-combatants were killed in the town between Damascus and the Lebanese border.