gunfire shelling leave 9 dead in syria

activists say government shelling and gunfire killed at least nine people across Syria on Wednesday most of them in the Idlib province region where violence erupted this week. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says at least five people were killed after security forces launched raids in the provinces town of Khan Sheikhoun where a mass shooting and the roadside bombing of a U.N convoy occurred on Tuesday.The London based group says three more people were killed at a Daraa province refugee camp on Wednesday after government forces opened fire and one person died in government shelling in the Homs region.
Meanwhile a U.N monitoring team was evacuated from Khan Sheikhoun on Wednesday a day after a roadside bomb damaged vehicles in their convoy. The blast occurred shortly after Syrian security forces opened fire on mourners at a funeral in the town killing at least 24 people according to anti government activists.The monitoring team is part of a larger group of U.N observers who have went out across Syria to assess compliance by the government and opposition to a fragile cease fire brokered by international mediator Kofi Annan.