Hundreds of families on Monday fled Syria\'s restive city of Homs following reports of a \"massacre\" there at the weekend of women and children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. \"Hundreds of families fled Homs overnight, notably from the Karm el-Zaytoun neighborhood, for fear of new massacres by regime forces,\" said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Britain-based group. Syria\'s opposition and activists earlier said that 47 women and children had been killed on Sunday in Homs by regime forces. However Syrian state television attributed the killings to \"armed terrorist gangs\".