The United Nations says its monitors in Syria have gained access to a village that is the site of a reported massacre.

The observers who entered Mazraat al-Qubeir Friday said they saw armored vehicle tracks around the village and homes damaged by rockets, grenades, and various weapons.

A U.N. statement says “blood was visible across the walls and floors” of some homes and the observers were hit by a “strong stench of burned flesh.”

The U.N. monitors were not able to talk to any witnesses because the village is now empty.

Activists say at least 78 people, including women and children, were killed in Mazraat al-Qubeir.

The Syrian government blames unidentified “terrorists” for the massacre.

The observers had been trying to reach the village since Thursday, but had been shot at and prevented from entering.

Mazraat al-Qubeir is the latest massacre in Syria. At least 108 people, almost half of them children, were killed when forces attacked the town of Houla on May 25. The government denies any role in the slaughter.

The Arab League has urged the U.N. Security Council to replace the nearly 300 monitors it has in Syria now with peacekeepers capable of preventing clashes.

International envoy and former U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan says the “specter of all-out war” in Syria grows by the day.