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Tuesday, 15 August 2006, 14:47 GMT 15:47 UK

In pictures: Lebanese return home

Family salvages a bed from their ruined home in Beirut - 15 August 2006

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As a fragile ceasefire holds in Lebanon, families from bomb-hit areas have been trying to retrieve what remains of their possessions from beneath the rubble.

Car drives on damaged bridge at Naameh, south of Beirut - 15 August 2006

Car drives on damaged bridge at Naameh, south of Beirut - 15 August 2006

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Displaced families have tried to head home across the remains of battered bridges.

Man tries to clear road east of Tyre - 14 August 2006

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Many roads are impassable, forcing people to hack away at the debris to try to forge a way through.

People at Damour, south of Beirut - 15 August 2006

People at Damour, south of Beirut - 15 August 2006

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Families and their possessions have crammed into vehicles, some clutching pictures of Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah.

A Red Cross worker evacuates a wounded Lebanese elderly woman from Bint Jbeil - 14 August 2006

A Red Cross worker evacuates a wounded Lebanese elderly woman from Bint Jbeil - 14 August 2006

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In the flattened town of Bint Jbeil, some wounded elderly residents unable to flee had spent 10 days stuck with the dead and injured.

Surviving woman in Bint Jbeil - 14 August 2006

Surviving woman in Bint Jbeil - 14 August 2006

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The village saw some of the fiercest clashes between Hezbollah and Israel, leaving residents trapped in the midst of devastation.

Woman with her mother trapped in Bint Jbeil - 14 August 2006

Woman with her mother trapped in Bint Jbeil - 14 August 2006

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The survivors had watched the town become rubble around them as the fighting raged.

Family in Beirut - 15 August 2006

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In the capital, Beirut, people ventured into the bomb-ravaged southern suburbs - which had been a Hezbollah stronghold - to salvage what they could.

Southern Beirut - 15 August 2006

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But many residents have no homes to go back to, and no salvageable possessions.

Rescue worker searches for bodies in south Beirut rubble - 15 August 2006

Rescue worker searches for bodies in south Beirut rubble - 15 August 2006

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For thousands of homeless, injured and bereaved Lebanese people, the end of the conflict does not mean normal life is about to restart.

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