Syrian troops, tanks push into Hama
BEIRUT — Syrian authorities severed telephone lines, electricity and water supplies to Hama on Wednesday as troops backed by tanks pushed into the heart of the besieged city in what appeared to be a final effort to crush the protest movement there.
A resident contacted by satellite telephone said citizens were cowering indoors, unable to leave their homes because snipers deployed on rooftops were shooting at anything that moved and heavy shelling by tanks made it too dangerous to go outside.
The assault began at 5 a.m., when the phone lines went down, the lights went out, the water was cut off and tanks began rolling toward the city center, demolishing the makeshift barricades that residents had erected to keep them out, said Saleh Hamawi, an activist with the Syrian Revolution Coordination Union, a group that monitors and organizes protests.
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