Rockets fall on Syrian city of Rastan, opposition activists say, killing 3 and injuring dozens, mostly children; 15 killed elsewhere; rape, torture reported

(CNN) -- Relentless Syrian forces took aim at the city of Rastan on Sunday, hitting it with 15 rockets in as many minutes, opposition activists said.

The government attack killed three people and injured dozens -- mostly children, according to Rastan opposition activists.

The opposition Local Coordination Committees of Syria said 15 people were killed Sunday, including seven in Homs, three in Damascus, one in Aleppo, one in Daraa, one in Deir Ezzor, one in Idlib, and one in Hama. The Syrian Network for Human Rights, another opposition group, also reported deaths in several cities.

The savage nightmare in the Syrian city of Homs will only intensify after government forces stormed the embattled neighborhood of Baba Amr in Homs, opposition activists said Sunday.

"The news coming from the families who fled after the entry of the Assad military forces is that there are more horrors, more killings and surely more massacres," said Rania Kisar, a Chicago-based member of the Syrian Revolution General Commission.

Osamah, the group's media director in Hama, reported arrests, rape and torture in Baba Amr by President Bashar al-Assad's forces.

"That's why the Assad regime refuses to allow the Red Cross and the Red Crescent to enter the neighborhood," said Osamah, who did not want to use his last name for safety reasons.

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