New Syria 'mass killing' reported ahead of UN meeting

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Thirteen factory workers were forced off a bus and executed by shabiha members in a village near Qusair, in the west of the country, they said.

Correspondents say the video shows a group of bodies with hideous injuries.

The UN Human Rights Council has meanwhile begun an emergency session to discuss the violence in Syria.

It is expected to blame pro-government forces for last week's massacre in Houla, in which more than 100 people died, including 49 children.

On Thursday, a Syrian government investigation into the killings blamed armed rebel groups seeking to trigger foreign military intervention.

The US permanent representative to the UN, Susan Rice, dismissed the finding as a "blatant lie", for which there was no factual evidence.

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