Beirut, Rajab 5, 1433, May 26, 2012, SPA - Syrian regime forces pounded the central province of Homs on Friday, killing 88 people -- some of them children -- an opposition group said. "This barbaric act was preceded by the regime's mortar shelling in the town," the Local Coordination Committees of Syria (LCC) said in a statement, referring to Hawleh, a town in the suburbs of Homs. "The campaign ended when the armed militias slaughtered entire families in cold blood." The group described the attack as a massacre, according to a report of CNN. "We in the Local Coordination Committees are pained by the international community's apparent blindness to the bloodshed, and believe the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) bears the responsibility for its inability to protect Syrian civilians. We request that the UNSC now take a step forward and more forcefully express its position with regard to the regime's practices," the group said. Another opposition group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said more than 300 people were wounded in the onslaught and that 13 children were killed. "It's unbelievable that we have seven billion people on this planet, and they all can't do anything about what they are seeing on TV," Abu Emad, an activist, told CNN from Homs. "Do something," he begged the international community. --SPA 10:57 LOCAL TIME 07:57 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/1001834