BBC News with John Jason
Activists in Syria say government forces have killed as many as 130 civilians across the country in an
escalation
of violence ahead of a ceasefire deadline. Troops were reported to have shelled, then attempted to storm the town of Latamna in Hama province. Jim Muir reports from neighbouring Lebanon.
This was at Latamna, a town in Hama province where torn and blood-stained bodies were being piled into pick-up trucks and driven off as
distraught
town's people looked on. They called it a massacre with several children among the 50 or so dead. Later there was a massive turnout and a lot of anger at the funeral, where one dead toddler was held aloft by the crowd. There was more
carnage
a little further south at Homs, where several embattled quarters where opposition fighters are entrenched, came under
unrelenting
bombardment. The victims weren't all killed by shelling. Activists put video on the Internet which appeared to show a pile of about a dozen bodies at the foot of a blood- stained wall, saying they were summarily executed there.
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The army in Pakistan is continuing its efforts to find more than 135 people, most of them soldiers, buried under an
avalanche
in the Himalayas. Major General Athar Abbas said hundreds of troops were trying to
dig down
through the snow, but it was so deep and covered such a wide area that so far they'd found no survivors. The avalanche engulfed an army base near the Siachen Glacier early on Saturday.