Gunmen kill three at Syrian pro-government TV
Gunmen have attacked a Syrian pro-government TV channel, killing three people, BBC reports citing state media. The attack on Ikhbariya TV south of Damascus blew up the newsroom.
Hours earlier, President Bashar al-Assad said Syria was in "a real state of war" and US intelligence officials predicted a long, drawn-out struggle.
The UN's deputy envoy on Syria says the violence has "reached or surpassed" levels before the April ceasefire deal.
Jean-Marie Guehenno was addressing the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva shortly before a commision of inquiry gave details of its report on the Houla massacre on 25 May in which 108 people died.
Commission chairman Paulo Pinheiro told the session that "forces loyal to the government may have been responsible for many of the deaths" but he said his team had been unable to determine who was behind the massacre.
Syria's information minister, on a visit to the site, said the three victims had been abducted, bound, and killed in cold blood.
