Home News Sport Radio TV Weather Languages UK version International versionAbout the versions | Low graphics | Help | Contact us News Front Page Last Updated: Sunday, 30 July 2006, 14:53 GMT 15:53 UK E-mail this to a friend Printable version Reporters describe carnage at Qana VIDEO AND AUDIO NEWS Africa Reports from the southern Lebanese town of Qana have See the aftermath of the Israeli Americas described a scene of air strike Asia-Pacific carnage, with rescue Europe workers continuing to pull Middle East bodies from the ruins of a South Asia civilian building. UK Business Early on Sunday morning, as LATEST NEWS Health BBC correspondents arrived at Lebanon warning on ceasefire Few people pulled from the destroyed Israeli commando raid alarms UN Science/Nature the site of the deadliest Israeli house in Qana were alive Technology strike so far in this conflict, The raid that went wrong Crisis day-by-day Entertainment frantic efforts to find survivors were already under way. ----------------- DESPATCHES Have Your Say Displaced families had been sheltering in the basement of a Dangers await In Pictures house in Qana, which was crushed after a direct hit. Unexploded bombs are among dangers facing Country Profiles The Israeli strike killed at least 54 people, more than half of those returning to In Depth them children. southern Lebanon. Programmes Israeli city counts cost of war The BBC's Jim Muir said that for some of the rescuers, Devastation sightseers RELATED BBC SITES experienced as they were, the emotional impact of finding so Surveying the damaged south SPORT many dead children in the ruins was too much. ANALYSIS WEATHER Challenges facing peace force ON THIS DAY "As I arrived, they were carrying out on a stretcher the limp France uneasy about mandate body of a young boy of about 10. Many other children were EDITORS' BLOG Tough task for Lebanese army pulled out of the rubble lifeless," our correspondent said. LANGUAGES BACKGROUND "That's a Red Cross rescue worker sitting here in the Text: UN Lebanon resolution sunshine just sobbing - he's so overcome with emotion here," Who stands where? he added. Lebanon's seven-point proposal VOICES 'Desperate operation' Israeli views on conflict Bloggers fear for the future The BBC's Fergal Keane got an immediate sense of the Israeli-Lebanese debate destructive impact of the attack even before reaching the missile crater. VIDEO AND AUDIO Reports and analysis "As we drove into the town we HAVE YOUR SAY saw ambulances coming Will the ceasefire work? against us and then at the PROFILES scene numerous rescue Hezbollah workers from the Lebanese Red Cross and the local civil defence trying to organise, TOP MIDDLE EAST STORIES pretty desperately, a rescue No Saddam plea at genocide trial operation," our correspondent Scores die in Egypt train crash Saudi police and militants clash said. Victims of the bombing had been sheltering in the bottom floor of a | News feeds His early assessment of the home casualties was borne out by events: "The number of wounded MOST POPULAR STORIES NOW seems to be quite small and that indicates that very, very MOST E-MAILED MOST READ few people survived this strike." Pakistan anger over cricket chaos Jim Muir had travelled to Qana along the road from Tyre, and Cruise last in 'best friend' poll said the route had been pitted with bomb craters. Map details global water stress Woman and three children He added: "The three-storey building where families have murdered been sheltering in the basement was crushed sideways into Pakistan backs cricket team in an enormous crater by the Israeli bomb strike - a sight all too ball row familiar throughout south Lebanon today. Most popular now, in detail "Elsewhere in Qana and along the road up from Tyre, many buildings had been similarly crushed." Only about a tenth of residents are estimated to remain in Qana, which has been subjected to heavy bombardment by Israeli forces in their conflict with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. Those with cars, petrol and the other means to leave have gone, and those left behind tend to be the poor and vulnerable. The dangers of further bombardment meant that it was not safe for the BBC crews to stay longer than a few minutes in Qana. Israeli warplanes could be heard flying around the area, and there were many explosions in the middle distance. [Note: The number of people killed in the Israeli bombing of Qana was later revised. The Washington based human rights group Human Rights Watch investigated the incident and issued a report on 3 August saying that 28 people were known to have died, while 13 people were missing.] E-mail this to a friend Printable version DON'T MISS In pictures Nasty surprises Just not cricket Train collision is Lebanese returnees Sense of sporting Egypt's worst rail crash brave unexploded injustice rages on the for four years Israeli bombs streets of Pakistan Desktop tools E-mail services Mobiles/PDAs Back to top Help Privacy and Cookies Policy News sources About the BBC Contact us .