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On Monday, more than 30 people were killed in the central city of Hama, just one day after the monitoring team visited the city. One amateur video posted online showed blood in the streets. Another showed 15 bodies laid out in rows and wrapped in white cloth. The Observatory said 55 people were killed across Syria on Monday. Syria's state news agency said U.N. observers were visiting the restive suburb of Douma Tuesday, their second visit in two days. A Douma activist, Mohammed Saeed, said via Skype that he had heard the observers arrived but had no information on their visit. "The news here is very bad," he said. "There are tanks and shelling and gunfire and the army has prevented fire engines from entering the city," he said. Amateur videos posted online Tuesday showed an explosion in the area and smoke rising into the sky as well as men and young boys dashing for cover as gunfire is heard nearby. Activist claims and videos could not be independently verified as the Syrian government has barred most media from working in the country. Also Tuesday, the U.N. food agency said it would deliver aid to 500,000 people in Syria, a tenfold increase since December but warned there are still around a million more people in the country who don't have enough to eat. The World Food Program said that by the end of the month, it will provide food for 250,000 people with the help from the Syrian Arab Red Crescent. It also said it would quickly double that "in the coming weeks," focusing on the cities of Homs, Hama, Idlib and Damascus. The U.N. says 1.4 million people in Syria struggled to feed themselves even before the start of the conflict.
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