FCO condemns bakery air strike

The Foreign Office has condemned the military air strike on a bakery near Hama that killed dozens of people:

UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has met President Bashar al-Assad today to discuss the ongoing conflict in the country.

After the meeting, he said: "I told him what I was seeing abroad and about meetings I had with different officials in the region and abroad, and also about the steps that I can see being taken to help the Syrian people to exit this crisis.

"The situation in Syria is still a worry. We hope that all sides will work towards a solution that the Syrian people want.''

Syrian opposition activists have reported that people killed in an air strike in a town near the central city of Hama, were queuing for bread at a bakery before the attack. The town was thought to have been without flour supplies for several days.

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The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has said "tens of people" were killed in an air strike by a Syrian Air Force fighter jet, which hit a bakery in a town near the central city of Hama.

Rebels have been clashing with government forces is recent days in the region around Halfaya, some 25 kms (15 miles) north west of Hama.

International envoy Lakhdar Brahimi arrived in Damascus to push for a negotiated solution to the Syrian conflict, amidst a government air strike that killed dozens of people in a town near the central city of Hama.

Dozens of people have been killed and wounded in an air strike on a bakery in Syria's central Hama province, activists said, with Reuters reporting up to 200 dead.

One activist said: "We cannot get an exact figure yet because we are still confused about which are dead and which are wounded".

The strike hit Halfaya, a town recently seized by rebels in a new push to take territory in Hama.